BUZZARD. 
The Buzzard is about the bigness of J 
pheasant; his head is great, his crown broad 
and flat; his beak is short, hooked, and of* 
dark blue. The colour of the Buzzard is 
generally brown, varied with yellow spots: 
but at a certain age his head becomes entirely 
grey. He is a sluggish, inactive bird, and 
often continues perched whole days togethtf 
upon the same bough, as if indifferent eith® 
to the allurements of food or of pleasure. Hj 
is rather an assassin than a pursuer; and 
lives more upon frogs, mice, and insects, 
which he can easily seize, than upon biflW 
which he is obliged to follow. He lives to! 
summer by robbing the nests of other birds, 
and sucking their eggs; and more resembles 
the owl kind in the countenance than any 
other rapacious bird of prey. 
