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ENCOUNTER OVER ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE. A pair of raiding falcons met low over a patch of English countryside, writes Mr Geoffrey Dalrymple Nash in the “Sussex County Magazine.” But the denizens of the wild-wood below continued to carry out domestic routine unperturbed by the proximity of their traditional enemies. This unusual indifference annoyed the two marauders; they stretched their talons' in readiness for a swoop-dive. But before they could carry it out, something shot up toward them, and the air was thick with flying feathers. Some hours later, and several miles away from that wildwood, two bleeding and bedraggled falcons met in their eyrie and discussed the encounter. “I never met a bird like that before,” said one. “Did you?” “No,” replied his friend, “and I cant trace it in Coward’s Directory. But I suspect it was one of those new hybrids we’ve been warned against cross between the British bulldog and the American eagle. Ornithological name. ‘Rara Avis Furibundo,’ abridged title R.A.F.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1942, Page 4
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164ORNITHOLOGICAL NAME Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1942, Page 4
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