
22 THE NATURAL HISTORY. 
when he threw the {mall pieces-of the Sheep into 
the air, they would catch them before they could 
fall to the ground. adi | 
The Buzzard is a fhort-winged Falcon. If 
the hen Buzzard fhould by any accident be killed, | 
the cock will fit upon the eggs, and hatch the 
young ones. It lays its eggs fometimes in a 
Crow’s neft, which it makes larger, and lines 
with wool. 
The Keftril is another. ~ It builds in the hol- 
low of trees, the holes of high rocks, or in old 
towers and ruins. We often fee it high in the air, 
fufpended, and almoft without motion. All this 
time it is watching for its’prey, and frequently 
darts down and takes up a little chicken, if it ftray 
from the hen: and this all other Hawks and Kites 
‘will do when they can. | : 
Fowlers fometimes ufea Hawk, called the Hobby, 
‘when they go out to take barks. When the Larks 
fee the Hobby they lie clofe to the ground through 
fear, and the Fowler draws his net ‘over them. 
There is a Falcon in America, called the Suf- 
flator. When he is angry or affrighted he puffs 
‘up his head until it appears as large as his body. 
Some ‘of the ‘Falcons not‘only’eat hares, and 
lyabbits, and fmall birds, ‘but ‘they feed upon li- 

‘gards, and worms,\and infects. 
GENUS 
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