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Hen-hawk that commonly sails high in 

 the air, screaming or whistling, and that 

 at other times swoops low and silent 

 through the woods, and always is known 

 by his ample wings and bright red tail; 

 the gray Chicken-hawk that rarely soars, 

 but that skims among the trees or even 

 runs on the ground, whose feathers are 

 gray-brown, and whose voice is a fierce 

 crek, crek, creek; and the Song-hawk or 

 Singer, who is the size of the Chicken- 

 hawk, but a harmless hunter of mice and 

 frogs, and known at all seasons by the 

 stirring song that he pours out as he 

 wheels like a Skylark high in the blue. 



The inner guide had warned the bois- 

 terous Bannertail to beware of all of them. 

 Experience taught him that they will at- 

 tack, and yet are easily baffled, if one 

 does but slip into a hole or thicket, or 

 even around the bole of a tree. 



Many times that summer did Bannertail 



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