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Could I dare, Inspiration! to quaff from thy 

 spring, 

 Of the Birds and their Songs I might worthily sing. 



been known to swallow thirteen mice at one meal; some of* the 

 mice were, however, young ones ; after which it became, for 

 several days, extremely stupid and indisposed for motion.* 



The Antillarum, or Mansfenny, inhabits the West India 

 islands; it is about eighteen inches long; body brown, belly 

 white, the crown black; legs and claws large and strong. — 

 The Orientalis, or Oriental Hawk, inhabits Japan ; the head 

 and body above dusky brown, beneath rusty brown; tail 

 spotted with white ; seventeen inches long. 



The Tinnunculus, Hawk, Kestril, Kestril Falcon, KastriL 

 CastriLi Coystrel, Stewgall, Sionegall, Stannel, Wind-hover, or 

 Hover-Hawk, the most commonly known in this country, of all 

 the tribe of Hawks. The male is thirteen inches long, bill lead 

 colour, cere yellow ; irida dusky and large ; the throat whitish ; 

 the back, scapular*, and wing coverts are a fine red brown, 



* The term Hawk is a very indefinite one; it has been oc- 

 casionally applied to the Buzzard ; thus Dryuen sings : 

 " Some haggard Hmvk who had her eyry nigh, 

 Well pounc'd to fasten, and well wing'd to fly : 

 One they might trust their common wrongs to wreak: 

 The Musquet and the Coystrel were too weak, 

 Too fierce the Falcon ; but, above the rest, 

 The noble Buzzard ever pleas'd me best ; 

 Of small renown 'tis true ; for, not to lye, 

 We call him but a Hawk by courtesy." 



Hind and Panther. 

 The musquet, or musket, here mentioned, is the male of the 

 Sparrow Hmvk. 



t See Drayton's Owl, Dryden's Hind and Panther, 

 Part III, and the preceding note* 



