so 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. 
Belfides the Bagle, there are many other birds of 
| the falcon kind, but they are all {maller than the 
Eagle. The Gentil Falcon is found in the 
‘Alps, _ which are very high mountains that divide 
France and Switzerland from Italy. Thele Pale 
cons are frequently caught, and made tame, and 
taught to fly after pigeons, and little birds, and to 
kill them. ( 
_ There is in India an deal called the Antelope ; 
itis fwifter than a Greyhound, and will not fuffer 
@ man, with a gun, to come near it, — 
In order to eateh the Gazelle, or ‘Anteloos, 
they take a Falcon and Greyhounds, and when — 
they fee the Antelope, the Falcon flies after ~~ 
and alighting upon his head flaps his wings, fo 
that the poor Antelope cannot fee which a 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 itronger, and has befides a very. long. 
beak. The Falcon endeavours to fly above the 
Heron, and frequently they rife fo high as {carce. 
‘dy te be feen from the ground. If the Falcon. | 
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