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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.”