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for the preservation of the species, and the person 
who destroyed their eggs was liable to a penalty of 
twenty shillings for each offence. The old pro- 
verb, not to know a hawk from a heronshaw, after- 
wards corrupted to, not to know a hawk from a hand- 
saw, was taken originally from this diversion. The 
longevity of the heron is confirmed by the account 
of one that was taken in Holland by a hawk be- 
longing to the stadtholder, the bird having a silver 
plate fastened to one leg, with an inscription im- 
porting that it had been struck by the elector of 
Cologne’s hawks thirty-five years before. 
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