Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 263
eing only about seventeen incheslong. Unlike most other hawks, it rarely ornever builds in trees, but places its nest on lonely and inacces-sible ledges in themountains or oncliffs by the sea. Though smallerthan the preceding,the duck-hawk is inno wise inferior toit in prowess andstrength of… … AMERICAN GOSHAWK. fowl; suit of them far out at sea—a flight of fifty or even a hundred miles being but pastime tothis fierce wanderer. It often proves its bar-barity by killing more than it needs for food,apparently just for the pleasure of the hunt.Confident of its power of flight, the…
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