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hollow tree is not a pleasant task, even 

 with a glove on ; he will often manage to 

 get his sharp claws into the wrist. The 

 way is to seize his head and crush it, kill- 

 ing him instantly, for an owl's head is soft, 

 and can be crushed easily. The white owls 

 are not so injurious. Sparrow-hawks and 

 kestrels are plentiful, and are constantly 

 trapped. The keepers insist that the kestrel 

 will occasionally take game, and say that 

 they have found wings of partridges in 

 kestrels' nests, though they allow that the 

 kestrel is not nearly so harmful as the 

 sparrow-hawk. Buzzards are sometimes shot, 

 and are now worth something to sell to 

 collectors. 



The vast moors of lied Deer Land; the 

 great oak covers which would be called 

 forests in any other country, and many of 

 which are not used for game preservation, 

 so that hawks breed as they list ; the ranges 



