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Show SKY MARAUDER IN AIRSHAFT Birds Cling Fearfully to Fire Escape While Sparrow Hawk Hovers Near. A servant maid in an apartment on the fourth floor of the Victoria, at Riverside drive and Ninety-seventh street, opened the kitchen window Monday morning and wondered why dozens of sparrows that were huddling hud-dling on fire escape and window sill did not take fright and scurry away. Then she glanced outward and 1 upward up-ward into the airshaft and discovered the reason. A sparrow hawk, sun glinting on its wings, was wheeling rapidly high up in the airshaft, but below the roof level. Occasionally, when the marauder's marau-der's keen eye glimpsed a sparrow which hadn't taken refuge it darted like a flash. Twice while the maid . watched the hawk made a capture and soared out of the airshaft. The air pirate worked for about two hours and disappeared shortly before noon, but it was at least half an hour later when the plump, brown sparrows spar-rows recovered from the terror caused by the hawk's appearance. |