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Bush.—Going “a-birding.”—The “Stanniel” or Kestrel.—Origin of the 
Two Names.—The “Musket” or Sparrow-Hawk.—Hawk and Hern- 
shaw.—Prices of Hawks.—Hawk’s Furniture.—Hawk’s Meat. — Fal¬ 
coner’s Wages.—Sundries.49 
CHAPTER III. 
THE OWL AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 
“The Bird of Juno.”—“The Favourite of Minerva.”—“ The Bird of Wis¬ 
dom.” — Sacred to Proserpine.—Use in Medicine.—The Bird of Ill- 
Omen.—Its Appearance by Day.—Its Habits misunderstood.—Its Utility 
to the Farmer.—A Curious Tradition.—Its Note or Cry.—An Owl 
Robbing Nests.—Evidence not conclusive.—Its Retiring Habits. — Its 
“ Five Wits.”—Its Fame in Song.—The Owl’s Good Night . . .83 
CHAPTER IV. 
THE CROWS AND THEIR RELATIONS. 
The Raven : a Bird of Ill Omen.—Its Supposed Prophetic Power.—Its Deep 
and Solemn Voice.—The Raven’s Croak foreboding Death.—The 
“ Night-Raven ’’ and “ Night-Crow.”—The Raven’s Presence on Battle¬ 
fields.—Its alleged Desertion of its Young.—The Rook and Crow. — 
The Crow-Keeper, and “Scare-Crow.”—The Chough.—Russet-pated 
Choughs.—The Daw, Magpie, and Jay.99 
CHAPTER V. 
THE BIRDS OF SONG. 
The Nightingale.— “Lamenting Philomel.” — Singing against a Thorn. 
—Erroneously supposed to Sing only by Night. — “Recording.”— 
The Lark.—“The Herald of the Morn.”—Singing at Heaven’s Gate. 
—Song of the Lark.—Soaring and Singing.—Changing Eyes with Toad. 
—Lark-Catching.—The Common Bunting.— “The Throstle, with his 
Note so True.”—Imitation of his Song.—The Ouzel-Cock.—The Robin- 
Redbreast, or Ruddock.—Covering the Dead with Leaves.—“ Redbreast 
Teacher.”—“The Wren with Little Quill.”—Its Loud Song.—The Spar¬ 
row.—“Philip Sparrow.”—Providence in the Fall of a Sparrow.—The 
Hedge-Sparrow and Cuckoo.— “The Cuckoo’s Bird."—“ Ungentle Gull.” 
—“ The Plain Song Cuckoo Gray.”—The Song of the Cuckoo.—Cuckoo 
Songs.—The Wagtail, or Dishwasher. -Bird-catching.—Springes.—Gins. 
— Bat-fowling.-—Its Two Significations. — Bird-Lime, Bird-Bolts, and 
Birding-Pieces.123 
