186 NATURAL HISTORY 



Glasgow, is worthy of notice. The pine- 

 plantations of that nobleman are very grand 

 and extensive indeed. 



I am, &c. 



LETTER XLIII. 



TO THE SAME. 



A PAIR of honey "buzzards^ buteo apivorus, 

 sive vespivorus Raii, built them a large shal- 

 low nest, composed of twigs and lined 

 with dead beechen leaves, upon a tall slen- 

 der beech near the middle of Selhorne- 

 hanger, in the summer of 1780. In the 

 middle of the month of June a bold boy 

 climbed this tree, though standing on so 

 steep and dizzy a situation, and brought 

 down an egg, the only one in the nest, 

 which had been sat on for some time, and 

 contained the embrio of a young bird. The 

 egg was smaller, and not so round as those 

 of the common buzzard ; was dotted at 



