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Birds of the Water Wood & Waste

The Falcon

The Falcon.

If the average size of the Falcon's quarry has been decreased by the destruction of the forest, if pigeon and parrot are seldom seen nowadays, their places are supplied by scores and hundreds of Ground Larks, Minahs and Starlings. Often have I seen a Falcon raid a flock of the last-named, striking a single page 21 bird and producing in the survivors a vast chatter and outcry ere again they go about their business; his sudden appearance, just such a bolt from the blue, just such a taste of the inevitable as clouds our brightness when some poor mortal amongst us is suddenly stricken down by death.