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Occasionally, too, a marsh-harrier may be met with, but this is a rara avis even in these outlandish parts. Peregrine falcons are uncommon too, though one may yet see a pair of them now and then if one keeps a sharp look-out at all times and seasons. There are wimbrels and curlews that have been shot here during recent years stuffed and hung up in glass cases in old Mr. Peregrine's house.
Then there was the marsh-harrier and the same might have been a kind of owl if it wasn't a sort of hawk who flapped up like some gigantic moth, and dogged his steps, only waiting he felt sure of it for the polecat to slip, or meet a foe, or have an accident, or something, before breaking its own avine neutrality.
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