BIRDS OF PREY. 



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the dish of flesh torn alive from the breast of partridge, 

 chicken, or mouse. He does not eat all he kills ; he will 



A HAWK PURSUED BY FINCHES AND SWALLOWS. 



sometimes carry a bird a considerable distance and then 

 drop the poor thing. Only recently I saw a hawk, pur- 

 sued by twenty or thirty finches and other birds across a 



