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Bush.—Going ‘‘a-birding.”"—The “‘ Stanniel”” or Kestrel.—Origin of the 
Two Names.—The ‘‘Musket” or Sparrow-Hawk.—Hawk and Hern- 
shaw.—Prices of Hawks.—Hawk’'s Furniture.—Hawk's Meat. — Fal- 
coner’s Wages. —Sundries ‘ 49 
CHAPTER III. 
THE OWL AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 
“The Bird of Juno."—‘‘ The Favourite of Minerva.” —‘‘ The Bird of Wis- 
dom.’”-—Sacred to Proserpine—Use in Medicine.—The Bird of Ill- 
Omen.—Its Appearance by Day.—Its Habits misunderstood.—Its Utility 
to the Farmer.—-A Curious Tradition—Its Note or Cry.—An Owl 
Robbing Nests.—Evidence not conclusive.—Its Retiring Habits.—Its 
\ Five Wits.""—Its Fame in Song.—The Owl's Good Night 83 
CHAPTER IV. 
THE CROWS AND THEIR RELATIONS. 
The Raven: a Bird of Ill Omen.—Its Supposed Prophetic Power.—Its Deep 
and Solemn Voice.—The Raven's Croak foreboding Death.—The 
“ Night-Raven” and ‘‘ Night-Crow.”—The Raven's Presence on Battle- 
fields.—Its alleged Desertion of its Young—The Rook and Crow.— 
The Crow-Keeper, and ‘‘Scare-Crow.’”—The Chough.—Russet-pated 
Choughs.—The Daw, Magpie, and Jay . 99 
CHAPTER V. 
THE BIRDS OF SONG. 
The Nightingale—‘‘ Lamenting Philomel.'’— Singing against a Thorn. 
—Erroneously supposed to Sing only by Night. — ‘‘ Recording.’’— 
The Lark.—‘' The Herald of the Morn.”—Singing at Heaven's Gate. 
—Song of the Lark,—Soaring and Singing.—Changing Eyes with Toad, 
—Lark-Catching.—The Common Bunting.—‘‘The Throstle, with his 
Note so True.’’—Imitation of his Song.—The Ouzel-Cock.—The Robin- 
Redbreast, or Ruddock.— Covering the Dead with Leaves.—‘‘ Redbreast 
Teacher.'"'"—‘‘ The Wren with Little Quill.’’—Its Loud Song. —The Spar- 
row.—'‘ Philip Sparrow.’"—Providence in the Fall of a Sparrow.—-The 
Hedge-Sparrow and Cuckoo.— ‘‘ The Cuckoo's Bird.” —'‘ Ungentle Gull.” 
—‘ The Plain Song Cuckoo Gray.'’—The Song of the Cuckoo.—Cuckoo 
Songs.—The Wagtail, or Dishwasher. —Bird-catching.—Springes.—Gins. 
— Bat-fowling. —Its Two Significations, — Bird-Lime, Bird-Bolts, and 
Birding-Pieces 
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