The Ornithology of Shakespeare

The Ornithology of Shakespeare
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James Edmund Harting. The Ornithology of Shakespeare

The Ornithology of Shakespeare

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I. THE EAGLE AND THE LARGER BIRDS OF PREY

CHAPTER II. HAWKS AND HAWKING

CHAPTER III. THE OWL AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS

CHAPTER IV. THE CROWS AND THEIR RELATIONS

CHAPTER V. THE BIRDS OF SONG

CHAPTER VI. THE BIRDS UNDER DOMESTICATION

CHAPTER VII. THE GAME-BIRDS AND “QUARRY” FLOWN AT BY FALCONERS

CHAPTER VIII. WILD-FOWL AND SEA-FOWL

CHAPTER IX. VARIOUS BIRDS NOT INCLUDED IN THE FOREGOING CHAPTERS

APPENDIX

FOOTNOTES

INDEX

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James Edmund Harting

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Like eagles having lately bath’d.”

The larger birds of prey are no less fond of washing, though they care so little for water to drink, that it has been erroneously asserted that they never drink. “What I observed,” says the Abbé Spallanzani,34 “is, that eagles, when left even for several months without water, did not seem to suffer the smallest inconvenience from the want of it, but when they were supplied with water, they not only got into the vessel and sprinkled their feathers like other birds, but repeatedly dipped the beak, then raised the head, in the manner of common fowls, and swallowed what they had taken up. Hence it is evident that they drink.”

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