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HAWKS AND OWLS. a7 
by these birds respectively there can be no possible 
comparison. 
FAR more useful than the sparrow-hawk is the 
well-known Kestrel, or Wind-hover, which, unfo:- 
tunately, is only too frequently confounded with its 
The Kestrel. 
unpopular relative, and doomed to expiate the mis- 
deeds of another: a kind of feathered ‘“ whipping- 
boy.” There can be little doubt, also, that it fre- 
quently suffers in consequence of its family characters, 
A hawk is a hawk to many an unobservant farmer 
