BUZZARD. Among the birds injurious to the farmer, as generally understood, may be mentioned some of the buzzards: The Red-tailed Buzzard, or Hen Hawk (Fa/co Borealis); Har lan's Buzzard (F. Haplard), and the Broad-winged Buzzard, or Broad-vvinged Hawk, (F. Pennsylean leas); the Large-footed Hawk (F. Pepegrinus); the Sharp-shinned Hawk (F. _Pumas) of Audu bon, also belonging to this family. The Red tailed Buzzard is found in every part of the United States and Canada, and thence to the Gulf of Mexico. .In very severe seasons it mi grates, from the Middle States, South. In Louisi ana, it builds its nest in February, but in the North not until about corn-planting time. Its flight is long-continued and firm, often very high. It sails to great distances without apparent mo tion of the wings, and it has the habit, when it discovers its prey, of descending to a convenient distance, from whence, with closed wings, it darts upon it with great accuracy. Squirrels, rabbits,
wood-rats and meadow-mice, are its favorite food; but when driven by hunger, it will make bold assaults upon the poultry of the barn-yard, and hence has come to be looked at as a dreaded enemy of the yard. It, however, takes but very few poultry, and the vermin it destroys constitute it a help rather than an enemy to agriculture. The range of the Broad-winged Buzzard is west of the Alleghanies, hut is by no means rare east, even in Maryland and Virginia, about its south ern limit, except in severe winters at the North, when it sometimes migrates even as far south as the Gulf States. The flight of this bird is easy, graceful and usually in circles. Sometimes when high in the air, it will close its wings for a mo ment, and glide easily along. - "