. Bird-land echoes; . ed there are exhibited a precision and an im-petuosity that leave to those who love such traitsnothing to be desired. Materially reduce the size and vastly increase theactivity and a correct idea is presented of thatthoroughly murderous yet most attractive bird, thesharp-shinned hawk. Not a noble hawk accord-ing to the ideas of falconers in days gone by, butthere never was a bird of prey that could do itsparticular work any better or with a less percentageof failure. I once saw a sharp-shinned hawk strikea barn-swallow, and was then fully satisfied of theabsolute perfecti
. Bird-land echoes; . ed there are exhibited a precision and an im-petuosity that leave to those who love such traitsnothing to be desired. Materially reduce the size and vastly increase theactivity and a correct idea is presented of thatthoroughly murderous yet most attractive bird, thesharp-shinned hawk. Not a noble hawk accord-ing to the ideas of falconers in days gone by, butthere never was a bird of prey that could do itsparticular work any better or with a less percentageof failure. I once saw a sharp-shinned hawk strikea barn-swallow, and was then fully satisfied of theabsolute perfection of its peculiar powers. Thesesmall falcons leave their nesting-sites in the moreK 19 2l8 Bird-Land Echoe remote country and appear among us at the timeof, or just before, the falhng of the leaves and arrivalof the tree-sparrows and blue snow-birds. Some-times I find them on the south hill-side in October,when the leaves have been discolored by frost, andare brown, ruddy, or brightly red, but still thick-set \^>:. f^.r^^^— -=s:^. Sharp-shinned Hawk.
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