. British birds' eggs and nests : popularly described . *r. 1. Common 2. I5l2ck-hea<led Burning. i Y<;,...v-hammer. 4. Ciil Punting. 5. Chaffincli 6. Tree Sparrow. 7. Houe Sparrow. 8 Greenfinch. 9. Hawfinch. 10. Gnldfinrh. 11. Linrct 12. Redpole, 13. Twiie. 14. Bullfinch. 15. Crossbill. 16. Creeper. IT. Wren. 18. Xnthalch. 19. Cuckoo. 20. Swalow. ASH-COLOrBED HAERIER. 37 21. IMAKSH —CCircns rvfiis). Moor Buzzard, Bald Buzzard, Marsh Hawk, Harpy, White-headed Harpy, Puttock, Duck-Hawk.—One would hardly expectto find that a bird, with such a string of aliases to its name,
. British birds' eggs and nests : popularly described . *r. 1. Common 2. I5l2ck-hea<led Burning. i Y<;,...v-hammer. 4. Ciil Punting. 5. Chaffincli 6. Tree Sparrow. 7. Houe Sparrow. 8 Greenfinch. 9. Hawfinch. 10. Gnldfinrh. 11. Linrct 12. Redpole, 13. Twiie. 14. Bullfinch. 15. Crossbill. 16. Creeper. IT. Wren. 18. Xnthalch. 19. Cuckoo. 20. Swalow. ASH-COLOrBED HAERIER. 37 21. IMAKSH —CCircns rvfiis). Moor Buzzard, Bald Buzzard, Marsh Hawk, Harpy, White-headed Harpy, Puttock, Duck-Hawk.—One would hardly expectto find that a bird, with such a string of aliases to its name,could enjoy a very wholesome reputation. However, hes noworse than his fellows of the Hawk family, and not so bad assome of them. Probably the name of Harrier, given to this andone or two of the Hawks next named, is derived from theirmethod of beating or quartering the ground, when in searchof prey, putting one in mind of the evolutions of the houndsimilarly engaged. The Marsh Harrier or Moor Buzzard (orBald Buzzard, as I used to hear it called in Ess
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