The Buzzard. 
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and mai'kings. After the young are hatched, lioth parent birds 
feed them, and very devoted parents tliey are. 
In captivity the Buzzard quickly settles down to aviary 
life and becomes a taine arul hardy pet. 
When I go the round of my aviaries, bearing food 
and tit -bits, I come to one whose solitary inmate greets me 
with a welcoming "howl." Thi.s greeting is uttered by the 
patriarch of my collection, the old Buzzard, or to mention her 
afTectionate patronymic " Buzzy." Many vicissitudes has this 
old favourite been through in the past. She was captured 
by boy.s when quite young and unable to fly, and had not been 
well -cared for, probably through ignorance in knowledge of 
what she required. Then she was sent to me and became an 
honoured and petted inmate of my aviaries. The nest -down 
had not quite departed when she arrived, and she looked a 
mass of soft downy feathers! Ill-treatment had not spoiled 
Buzzy 's temper. As a preliminary experiment I offered her 
a field mouse as a peace -offering. She t/ook it with gratitude 
and we became instant friends. Mice have always been her 
favourite food, but rats are also accepted with avidity. J^irds 
are not relished, and indeed, are never touched unless compplled 
by hunger, when no other food is to be obtained, The number 
