. Diseases and enemies of poultry . is are the Sharp shinned Hawks. For impu-dent dnring this present sppcics, without doubt, rnnkspre-eminent jimong the raptorial genern. Almost every. COOPERS HAWK . (YOUNG) 1(17 farmer or [xmltiy laisei- cau leeouut iustauces ofwhere lie or slie was ilie victim of pillage by this boldand audacious robber, in the spring of 187!S ihewriter was presented bv a friend with a CoopersHawk which he had caught in a steel trap, but notuntil he and his mate had destroyed some fifty youngchickens. In one day these two hawks killed twelvechirkens. A BOLD ACT. Audulxin sa
. Diseases and enemies of poultry . is are the Sharp shinned Hawks. For impu-dent dnring this present sppcics, without doubt, rnnkspre-eminent jimong the raptorial genern. Almost every. COOPERS HAWK . (YOUNG) 1(17 farmer or [xmltiy laisei- cau leeouut iustauces ofwhere lie or slie was ilie victim of pillage by this boldand audacious robber, in the spring of 187!S ihewriter was presented bv a friend with a CoopersHawk which he had caught in a steel trap, but notuntil he and his mate had destroyed some fifty youngchickens. In one day these two hawks killed twelvechirkens. A BOLD ACT. Audulxin says: This maramUr sometimfs attacks birds faisuperior to itself in weight and sometimes possessed of acourage and strength equal to its own. .\s I was one morningobserving the motions of some parakeets, near Bayou Sara,in Louisiana, in the month of November, I heard a cockcrowing not far from me and in sight of a farm house. Thenext moment the hawk flew past me and so close that I mighthave touched it with the barrel of my gun had I been pre-pared. Not more than a few seconds elapsed before I heardthe cackling of the hens and the war cry of the cock, and atthe same time observed
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