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AWKS, as a class, are always included 
H among our feathered enemies, owing to 
their fondness for preying upon those creatures which 
are bracketed together under the title of “game.” The 
Kestrel, however, is an exception. On rare occasions 
it may carry off a young partridge; but by far the 
greater proportion of its diet consists of field-mice and 
voles, which it destroys in enormous numbers, one nat- 
uralist going so far as to say that its average bag in 
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