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make ufe of an old neft of a kite to breed in, feeding their young with 

 the nympha ofwafps^ the combs of wafps being found in the aforefaid 

 nefts, in which were two young ones, covered with a white down, 

 fpotted with black; their feet of a pale yellow, their bills between the 

 noftrils and the head white, their craws large : in the crops were found 

 lizards, frogs, he. In one of them were found two lizards entire, 

 with their heads towards the bird's mouth, as if they fought to creep 

 out." — ' c This bird runs very fwiftly like a hen." — Alb. i. t. 2. 



The eggs of the Honey Buzzard are varioufly defcribed by different 

 authors ; the fpecimens formerly preferved in the Portland Mufeum 

 were of a very deep red brown, with ferruginous blotches of chefnut; 

 Mr. Latham fays he was informed by Mr. Boys^ " that they are of a 

 blueifh white, marked with irregular rufous fpots ; the fliape of the 

 egg almort globular \ ufually three in the neft." Mr. Pennant fays 

 he was favoured with a defcription of the eggs by Mr. Plumly \ cc they 

 were blotched over with two reds, fomething darker than thofe of the 

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