NATURAL HISTORY. 
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others are only marked on the breaft with a 
white crcfcent. They are about two feet 
long, four feet wide, and thirty-two ounces 
in weight. 
Of tins fpecies there are alfo, they honey,, 
moor, and Turkey buzzard; the hen-harri- 
err, keftril and hobby . 
The SPARROW HAWK. 
T HERE is a great difference in fue 
between the male and female of this bird; 
the latter weighing nearly twice as niudi 
as the former. They vary alfo confiderably 
in their pluuuge ; though the back, head, co- 
verts of the wings, and tail, are generally of 
a blue grey. It makes great devauation 
among pigeons and. partridges. 
The fparrow-hawk was in fuch venera- 
tion among the Egyptians, that thej^ chofe it 
as the-i-eprefentative of their God Ofiris, and 
pnnilhed with deatii eveiy perfon who fliould 
kill one. 'I'he (Greeks confecrated it to A- 
polio. It was-alfb made one of the fymbols 
of Juno, from its fixed and piercing figliti 
v/hich refemblcd the jealous obfei vance of 
tliat Goddefs. 
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