...But, alas! the sweet dovelived for ever trembling, threatened by the cruel falcon, andher angelic spirit was suffocating within the gloomy walls ofthe Castle of Carrion...
Antonio de Trueba Henry J. Gill 「The Cid Campeador」
...—The beautiful Peregrine Falcon is rare, but the Kestrel is found almost universally;and the bold and daring Goshawkwherever wild crags and precipices afford safe breeding places...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...Aplomado Falcon...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
...Peregrine Falcon...
John Albert Leach 「An Australian Bird Book」
...168 Gray Falcon, Blue (Smoke) Hawk, F...
John Albert Leach 「An Australian Bird Book」
...Aplomado Falcon (Falco fusco-cærulescens)...
Frank M. Chapman 「Color Key to North American Birds」
...When a wild falcon appears on the scene thebird-catcher throws into the air the cane with the luckless doveattached to it...
Douglas Dewar 「A Bird Calendar for Northern India」
...Accordingly, the falcon, unmindful of theproverb which says that honesty is the best policy, swoops downon the buzzard with intent to commit larceny, and becomesentangled in the nooses...
Douglas Dewar 「A Bird Calendar for Northern India」
...31596 is the first recorded specimen of the Prairie Falcon from Coahuila...
Emil K. Urban 「Birds from Coahuila, Mexico」
...The Buzzard, though ranked very properly among birds belongingto the Falcon tribe, is deficient in the graceful activity which characterizesthe true Falcons...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...The Peregrine Falcon occupies among the 'noble' birds of prey aplace second only in dignity to the Gyr Falcon...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...Once knowing that, thoroughly, we can further learn from the swallow what a wing is; from the chough what a beak is; and from the falcon what a claw is...
John Ruskin 「Love's Meinie」
...The Peregrine Falcon so famous in the daysof Falconry is a fearless bird and does not hesitate to attackthose of much larger size...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...Wood, "the Falcon was almost always victorious, andafter it had attained a sufficient altitude, it swept, or 'stooped',as the phrase was, upon the Heron...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...Upon their having found and sprung a brood of grouse, the falcon immediately gave chase, and struck a young bird before they had proceeded far upon the wing...
Samuel Griswold Goodrich 「Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom」
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