Ossifrage

When the fowler came up and saw the Ossifrage taken in his toils he marvelled with exceeding marvel and said,

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

‘I set up my nets, thinking to take therein pigeons and the like of small fowl; how came this Ossifrage to fall into it?’

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

When the fowler came up and saw the Ossifrage taken in his toils he marvelled with exceeding marvel and said,

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

'I set up my nets, thinking to take therein pigeons and the like of small fowl; how came this Ossifrage to fall into it?'

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Ossifrage [FN#106] which, for precaution against the hunters, abode in the upper air, of the excess of his subtlety; but, as he was thus, he saw a fowler set up his nets and when the toils were firmly staked down bait them with a bit of meat; which when he beheld, desire and lust thereof overcame him and he forgot that which he had seen of springes and of the sorry plight of all birds that fell into them.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

BIRDS -- Eagle; Ossifrage; Ospray; Vulture; Kite; Raven; Owl; Nighthawk;

Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Michael Russell 1814

BIRDS -- Eagle; Ossifrage; Ospray; Vulture; Kite; Raven; Owl; Nighthawk;

Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Michael Russell 1814