The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life part 3 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 56
swiftly, over meadows and fields, justabove the tops of the grass, cause him to bereadily recognized. He sometimes trespasses bysnatching a sparrow or lark, but the food heprefers, and that upon which he chiefly lives, ismice, ground squirrels, and such little gnawers.No impudent raider of the… … fig. 8. coopers hawk. deeds are forgotten, and many a harrier thusfalls victim to the ignorant crusade against thewhole hawk tribe, or to the thoughtlessness of the sportsman to whom a wing shot is a tempta-tion not to be resisted. There arc many other large hawks scatteredover the United States,…
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