Budgerigars, the prettily coloured "love birds," so long popular in England, are now having a "boom" in Japan, with the result that pairs which sold for £5 or so a year ago have fetched as much as £240 apiece. A boy living at Headley, Hampshire, I saw a falcon sweep down on a young rabbit at play in a field. The bird had not risen far when a stone from the boy hit it and caused it to drop its prey. The boy secured the rabbit and . took it home. __
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 3174, 6 December 1927, Page 6
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