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A SPARROWHAWK MAKING A TRY FOR A BLACKBIRD 



Although too small and slight for " regular " game, the European Sparrowhawk, which closely resembles 

 our Sharp-shin (see color plate XVI), is uncommonly tierce and courageous, and makes spirited dashes at such 

 quarry as starlings and blackbirds. It is a hedgerow hunter, depending for success upon the intrepidity of 

 its onslaught and the pertinacity with which it foflows its victim. It will even run through thick cover 

 after skulking quarry. 



