138 
t Fae. 
COMMON BUZZARD. CuassIl. 
: 
7 
<4. Buz- Le Bufe, ou Bufard. Belon 
ZARD. 
av. 100. 
Buteo. Ge/ner. av. 46. 
Bufharda Yurzneri. 
Buteo, feu Triorches. 4/d. av. 
Wald Geyer. Kram. 329. 
Falco buteo. Lin. ff. 127. 
Quidfogel. Faun. Suec. fp. 60. 
La Bufe. Briffon av. I. 406. 
Hift. d’ Oys. I. 206. 
I. 190. Pojana. Zinan. 85. Scopoli. 
Triorches, Buteo. Phi lib. No. 4. 
ai th | Br. Zool. 66. Tab. A. 3. Pl. 
Raii fyn. av. 16. sc Feb arg. 
Common Buzzard,orPuttock. Oc¢erne Falk 
° Brannich Es 
Wil. orn. 70. , 
HIS bird is the commoneft of the hawk 
kind we have in England. It breeds in 
large woods, and ufually builds on an old crow’s 
neft, which it enlarges and lines with wool, and 
other foft materials: it lays’ two or three eggs, 
which are fometimes wholly white ; fometimes fpot- 
ted with yellow. The cock buzzard will hatch and - 
bring up the young, if the hen is killed*. The 
young confort with the old ones for fome little 
time after they quit the neft; which is not ufual 
with other birds of prey, who always drive away 
their brood as foon as they can fly. This fpecies is 
very fluggifh and inactive; and is much lefs in mo- 
tion than other hawks, remaining perched on the 
fame bough for the greateft part of the day, and 
is found at moft times near the fame place. It 
feeds on birds, rabbets, moles and mice; it will 
alfo eat frogs, earth-worms and infeéts. 
~* Ray’s Letters. 352. h 
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