fays, " he has feen as many as nine at one time feeding on the 

 carcafe of a fheep on the fandy flats on the coafl of Carmar- 

 thenfhire." 



It breeds ufually on the ground, though it has alfo been 

 known to build on trees ; laft feafon a pair built their neft, 

 compofed of fticks, grafs, and the leaves and decayed ftalks 

 of the following rufli (Butomus umbellatus) in an ofier ground 

 near the Grand-Surrey-Canal, on the Deptford-Road ; it was 

 placed on a fmall hillock, juft above the water's edge, and 

 contained five dufky white eggs, two of them were fplafhed 

 with ruft coloured fpots at the larger end; the female was 

 fhot from the neft, and being but flightly wounded lived in 

 confinement for fome months ; it was fed with frogs, mice, 

 worms, beetles, the entrails of fi{h and other animals, and 

 was particularly voracious. 



In its wild ftate this bird feeds on rabbits, hares, the young 

 of the coot and moor-hen, it alfo frequents the haunts of 

 lapwings and plovers, and deftroys numbers of their young ; it 

 is not as fluggifh as the common buzzard, though by no means 

 an adive bird on wing ; in the fpring whilft the female is 

 incubating, the male frequently foars to a great height, and 

 is on wing during the greater part of the day. 



They are very attentive to their young, and alternately go- 

 in queft of food ; the male has been known to relieve the 

 female during the time of incubation. 



Provincial names. Bald Hawk or Buzzard, Duck Hawk„ 

 White-Headed Harpy. 



