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The two heads of (loshawks (adult and vonnjjj or iiii 

 iiiatmc). illustrate aiiollier species of the <leti-iiiienlal 

 Hawks which destroy much game, poultry and the 

 smaller kinds of wild son"; birds. The two heads of 

 Ked-shoiildered IJawks (adult and young, the latter 

 known to the older ornithological writers as Wintei- 

 Falcon), illustrate a species which is beneficial, as 

 it rarely j)reys on poultry or game, but subsisls 

 largely on mice, frogs, grassho])pei'S and beetles. 



