Sparrow-Hawk

"And now, I pray you," said Geraint, "help me to come by some arms, and in to-morrow's lists will I call this Sparrow-Hawk to account."

Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion Beatrice Clay

In the midst of the meadow are set up two forks, and on the forks a silver rod, and on the rod the form of a Sparrow-Hawk.

Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion Beatrice Clay

Then the young Earl, Yniol's nephew, adjudged the Sparrow-Hawk to

Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion Beatrice Clay

_Sparrow-Hawk_, at the _Partridge_ or _Black-Bird_.

The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing Robert Howlett

The Sparrow-Hawk (Accipiter fringillarius) survives, although in diminished numbers; and this indeed is the only one of the hawks against which “my voice should be for open war.”

Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter

Then the heralds blew their trumpets, and Edeyrn bade his lady-love take the Sparrow-Hawk, her due as fairest of the fair.

Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion Beatrice Clay

Lark, then a Thrush, then a Sparrow-Hawk, -- all these sounds coming from the one little throat of the happy bird on that bough.

The Curious Book of Birds Abbie Farwell Brown 1899

The disease animal, being a bird or birds, must be dislodged by something which preys upon birds, and accordingly the Blue Sparrow-Hawk from the tree tops and the Brown Rabbit-Hawk (Diga´tiskĭ -- “One who snatches up”), from above are invoked to drive out the intruders.

The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398 James Mooney 1891

Sparrow-Hawk; in the spreading tree tops you are at rest.

The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398 James Mooney 1891

And it was for the avouchment of the love of that maiden that Geraint jousted for the Sparrow-Hawk at the tournament; for he said that that maiden was better entitled to the Sparrow-Hawk than this maiden who was with me.

The Mabinogion Vol. 2 (of 3) Owen Morgan Edwards 1889