NATURAL ILprORY. 115 
Ini'ds of paflage. It tvventy-feven inches 
in length, five feet in hieadth, and in weight 
about forty -foui' ounces. This bird polTef- 
fing no peculiarity of pluiipage, we omit giv- 
ing an uninterefting detail pf its feathers : we 
fhall, therefore, only obferve, that they fome- 
times differ in color; fome being entirely 
tawny, while others are variegated. 
rhc CO M M O N B U Z Z A R D. 
HIS bird, which is remarkably 
gifli and inaftive,. will frequently remain 
perched a whole cLiy on the fame bought 
Frogs, mice, and infers, are its chief fubfilt- 
ence.. The realbnfor preferring which, feems 
to arife from natural indolence, they being 
more cafily obtained than birds, which it will 
not take the trouble of flying after. It lives 
HI the funmier by robbing nefts, and fucking 
the eggs. In countenance, it more refembles 
the owl, th'an any bird of day. Should the 
hen buzLard be killed, the cock will hatch, 
and rear the young. 'Fhey breed in large 
woods, and generally build on an old crow s 
neft. The young accompany their jxircnts 
for fome time after they can fly, which diflin- 
guiflies them from other birds of prey^ They 
vary conliderably in their plumage; fomc- 
having brcv.’u brcafls and bellies, while 
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