The field book : or, Sports and pastimes of the United kingdom ; compiled from the best authorities, ancient and modern (1833)
Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792-1850 · London : E. Wilson · leaf 513
liberately take his aim, for bythis device the flight of the bird i3 renderedless rapid and more regular, and at the sametime presents a much better mark for practice,besides it affords an excellent diversion inseasons when game cannot be pursued, or inwet weather from underneath the shelter of… … The Sparrowhawk.(Falco?iisus, Linn.;LEpuvier, Buff.)—The length of the maleis twelve inches; that of the female fifteen.Its bill is blue, furnished with bristles at thebase, which overhang the nostrils ; the colourof the eye is bright mange ; the bead is flat atthe top, and above each eye is a…
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