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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10968, 24 January 1899, Page 5

The Daily Mail quotes from the Boston Globe the statement that at a recent women's convention one of the speakers, Mrs. Blake, electrified her audience with enthusiasm by announcing the discovery that the American eagle is a hen bird. We have always expected that some women's champion would one day light upon the fact that in the Raptorial birds the female is larger and fiercer than the male. In hawking, for instance, the word "falcon" always implies the female bird, when used correctly, the male peregrine being called a "tiercel." Slmkespere. who was evidently an expert in the art of hawking, always used the term correctly as to sex, but many writers and poets who have since his time introduced falcons'into their imagery have confused the , male and female bird. Naturalists have 1 known all along the fact which Mrs. Blake has just discovered, but being mostly men they have, in a spirit of cowardice, concealed their knowledge, for fear of giving the " Aggressive Woman" such a strong argument for the superiority of the female over the male sex. The Herald and Auckland Wmkm NkWS Exhiijuion Number is full of beautiful illustrations.