That a. sparrow hawk will boldly attack anytliing that (lie-; is well known, but recently one of these feathered
"aerial torpedoes" sallied straight into the kitchen of a Whangaiunniona house and hailed up its quarry, a tame pigeon, in a saucepan in the kitchen sink, the astonished housewife, hearing the commotion, rushed into the scene ol action with a. sugar-bag, which she clapped over the. saucepan and telephoned tor her husband. The head of the; house was soon on the spot- and m a trice had dispatched the hawk and rescued the pigeon, which soon recovered.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19140, 8 October 1936, Page 3
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