hen-hawk

The sparrow-hawk, the malicious hen-hawk, and cruel pigeon-hawk, are very common throughout the United States and Europe.

Harper's Young People, February 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

I spent an hour to-day trying to shoot a hen-hawk that's been hovering about the shack all afternoon.

The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer 1912

I knew that old hen-hawk meant trouble for me -- and the trouble came, all right.

The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer 1912

I have shot a partridge and a hen-hawk and caught eighteen large trout [probably Sebago salmon].

The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne Stearns, Frank P 1906

"It's a gum-game," protested Reeves, agitatedly, "and I ain't goin 'to fight no ostrich nor hen-hawk."

The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900

Do not swoop down upon the health germs like a hungry hen-hawk on a green gosling, but incline your head gently until your carefully deodorized breath is upon her lips -- there pause, for the essence of enjoyment is in anticipation.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

As for the farmers, they are so busy raising hogs and prices that their best friends, the birds, get scant attention from them, -- until a hen-hawk takes a chicken!

Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895

I have shot a partridge and a hen-hawk and caught eighteen large trout [probably Sebago salmon].

The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne Frank Preston Stearns 1881

Of the hen-hawk, he has observed that both male and female take part in incubation.

Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers John Burroughs 1879

In his "Indian-Summer Reverie" we catch a glimpse of the hen-hawk, silently sailing overhead

The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton John Burroughs 1879