HONEY BUZZARD. 
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tion of the stomach, which was quite full, it was 
found to contain a few of the larvae and some 
fragments of coleopterous insects ; several whitish 
coloured hairy caterpillars ; the pupa of a butter- 
fly, and also of the six-spot burnet moth, ZyycRna 
Jilipendulce, together with some pieces of grass 
which, it is presumed, were taken in with this 
last named insect, it being on the stalks of grass 
that the pupas of this species of Zygcena are 
chiefly found.”* 
All authors agree in making the Honey Buz- 
zard breed on trees ; the number of eggs three or 
four, small in proportion, and of a yellowish 
white, blotched and spotted with brown. Mr 
Gould says, “ several instances of its breeding in 
this country have come to our knowledge,” and 
again, it constructs a nest of twigs lined with wool 
and other soft materials. The nest mentioned 
by White was built on a tall slender beech ; it 
was large and shallow, composed of twigs, and 
lined with dead beechen leaves. Willoughby says, 
speaking of its nest, “ We saw one that made use 
of an old Kite’s nest to breed in, and that it fed 
its young with the nymplia of wasps, for, in the 
nest, we found the combs of wasps’ nests, and in 
the stomachs of the young, the limbs and frag- 
ments of wasp maggots. In the nest there were 
Mag. of Nat. Hist. vi. p. 447. 
