The Cabinet of natural history and American rural sports . ircumstance, an old gentleman, very well mounted,rode up to them, to whom they told the story. A moregame fox, replied the veteran, never ran on four legs;we have followed him a full hour, mostly at the very heightof our speed, and ere this he would probably have breathedhis last, but for the rattling of yonder confounded timbercarriages, which headed him, and caused a check; however,we have not yet done with him, I trust, for the mystery youspeak of somehow or other must be unravelled. Thenraising himself on his saddle, and looking fo
The Cabinet of natural history and American rural sports . ircumstance, an old gentleman, very well mounted,rode up to them, to whom they told the story. A moregame fox, replied the veteran, never ran on four legs;we have followed him a full hour, mostly at the very heightof our speed, and ere this he would probably have breathedhis last, but for the rattling of yonder confounded timbercarriages, which headed him, and caused a check; however,we have not yet done with him, I trust, for the mystery youspeak of somehow or other must be unravelled. Thenraising himself on his saddle, and looking forward, withgreat earnestness, I have it—I have it, gentlemen, saidhe, ten pounds to a shilling, there is an underground com-munication between the brake and yonder old drain, ofwhich Reynard availed himself. So indeed it proved—the hounds coming up, one of them dashed into the drain,and opening, the others quickly joined, when they all wentoff with the fury of a tempest, and soon killed their fox ona stopped earth in an adjoining cover.—Sport. AND AMERICAN RURAL SPORTSRED-TAILED HAWK. 229 FALCO BORE A LIS. [Plate XX.] Falco Borealis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. Vol. i. p. 266.—La-tham. Ind. Ornith. Vol. i. p. 25. Arct. Zool. p. 205,No. 100. Ch. Buonaparte, Synops, p. 32. Wilson,Am. Orn. 2cl ed. Vol. i. p. 82. Jlmerican Buzzard,Lath. i. 50. Turt. Syst. p. 151. F. aquillnus, cauciaferriiginea, Great Eagle Hawk, Bartram, p. Museum. This species of the Hawk is common throughout theUnited States, and may be found, during each season of theyear, in the Northern, Middle, Western, and SouthernStates. They descend, in the winter season, in some mea-sure, from the higher latitudes, to less severe climates, andare very abundant in the Middle States. In the lower partsof Pennsylvania and New Jersey, they are more commonlyto be seen during the autumn and winter, particularly inthe regions of well-cultivated farms and extensive is one of the most daring and rav
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