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HAWK OWL. 
is enabled to pass through the air with the greatest silence, a 
provision necessary for enabling them the better to surprise their 
prey. In the Hawk Owl now before us, which flies by day, 
and to whom this contrivance would be of no consequence, it 
is accordingly omitted, or at least is scarcely observable. So 
judicious, so wise and perfectly applicable, are all the dispositions 
of the Creator. 
