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Hawk

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature

Hawk, an unclean bird (;; ). The English name is an altered form of the old word 'fawk' or 'falk.' Western Asia and Lower Egypt, and consequently the intermediate territory of Syria and Palestine, are the habitation or transitory residence of a considerable number of species of the order Raptors, which, even including the shortest-winged, have great powers of flight, are remarkably enterprising, live to a great age, are migratory, or followers upon birds of passage, or remain in a region so abundantly stocked with pigeon and turtle-dove as Palestine, and affording such a variety of ground to hunt their particular prey—abounding as it does in mountain and forest, plain, desert, marsh, river and sea-coast. We shall here enumerate, so far as our information will permit, the Falconidæ of this region, exclusive of those mentioned in other articles [EAGLE; GLEDE; KITE; OSPRAY].

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