<Sp arrow-hawk 



LETTER XLIII. 1 



To the same. 



SELBORNE, Sept. yh, 1778. 



EAR SIR, From the motion of birds, the transi- 

 tion is natural enough to their notes and language, 

 of which I shall say something. Not that I would 

 pretend to understand their language like the 

 vizier ; who, by the recital of a conversation 

 which passed between two owls reclaimed a 

 sultan,* before delighting in conquest and de- 

 but I would be thought only to mean that many of the 



vastation 



* See "Spectator," Vol. vii., No. 512. 



1 This is clearly not a real letter, but an additional essay on the notes of 

 birds, written when the idea of publication had been adopted. ED. 



