pursued by the blue hawk known by the name of the 

 hen-harrier, but escaped into some covert. He then 

 sprung a second and a third in the 

 same field, that got away in the 

 same manner ; the hawk hover- 

 ing round him all the while that 

 he was beating the field, con- 

 scious no doubt of the game that 

 lurked in the stubble. Hence 

 ^^v*/^^ ^^ ^^y conclude that this bird 



^J^^^ V of prey was rendered very dar- 



ing and bold by hunger, and that 

 hawks cannot always seize their 

 game when they please. We may 

 farther observe, that they cannot 

 pounce on their quarry on the 

 ground, where it might be able to make a stout 

 resistance, since so large a fowl as a pheasant could 

 not but be visible to the piercing eye of a hawk, 

 when hovering over the field. Hence that propen- 

 sity of cowering and squatting till they are almost 

 trod on, which no doubt was intended as a mode of 

 security ; though long rendered destructive to the 

 whole race of GallincB by the invention of nets and 

 guns.] 



When redstarts shake their tails they move them 

 horizontally, as dogs do when they fawn : the tail of 

 a wagtail, when in motion, bobs up and down like 

 that of a jaded horse. 



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A weasel. 



