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CHAPTER IV.


HAWKS, FALCONS AND EAGLES.

The princes of the house of the birds of do not find much

to tempt them to Bombay, with the exception of the Indian Sparrow Hawk, which will be wherever there are sparrows. Not that sparrow meat is better than that of larks or bulbuls, or other small birds, but prey Sparrow Hawk. a community of sparrows, at ease in the established security of their urban life, offers rare

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