go THE NATURAL HISTORY 
Eagle watches the fowlers when they go out a 
fhooting, and is fure to catch all the little birds 
that they wound. | 
Befides the Eagle, there are many other birds of 
the falcon kind, but they are all fmaller than the 
Eagle. The Gentil Falcon is found in the 
Alps, which are very high mountains that divide 
France and Switzerland from Italy. ‘Thefe Fal- 
cons are frequently caught, and made tame, and — 
taught to fly after pigeens, and little birds, and to 
kill them. 
There is in India an animal called the Antelope; 
it isfwifter than a Greyhound, and will not fuffer — 
aman, with a gun, to come near it. 
In order to catch the Gazelle, or Antelope, 
they take a Falcon and Greyhounds, and when 
they fee the Antelope, the Falcon flies after him, 
and alighting upon his head flaps his wings, fo 
that the poor Antelope cannot fee which way to 
run; then the Greyhounds readily overtake and 
catch him. Sometimes Herons are taken by Fal- 
cons. ‘The Heron is a larger bird than the Fal- 
con, and ftronger, and has befides a very long 
beak. ‘The Falcon endeavours to fly above the 
Heron, and frequently they rife fo high as f{carce- 
ly to be feen from the ground, If the Falcon 
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