Eurasian sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus (top), goshawk, Accipiter gentilis (center), and gyrfalcon, Falco rusticolus (bottom). L'epervier, Falco nisus, L'autour, Falco palumbarius, Le gerfaut, Falco candicans. Handcoloured engraving by Madame Thorel after an illustration by Antoine Chazal from Achille Richard's Oeuvres Completes de Buffon, Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1839.

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