Excerpt from Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. 5: 1854 to 1856 Buteo borealis. Very abundant at times, and always met with in considerable numbers about the groves and forests bor dering our prairies, where they subsist principally upon moles, snakes, frogs, etc; these being often found in their stomachs bolted entire. B. Lineatus. Occasionally met with in this vici nity, (racine;) in some portions of the State considerably nu mercus, particularly about the large marshes frequented by water fowl, upon which it preys. B. Pennsylvanicus. A few spe cimens have been obtained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.