eagle-hawk
Britishnoun
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Now this name Bun-jel means "eagle-hawk," and the eagle-hawk is a totem among certain stocks.
From Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 by Andrew Lang
Birds were nowhere numerous—an occasional eagle-hawk, or crow, and once or twice a little flock of long-tailed parrots whose species was unknown to any of us.
From Spinifex and Sand by David Wynford Carnegie
From Australia upwards, a god, perhaps originally, conceived of as human and moral in character, is also recognised in a totem, as Pund-jel in the eagle-hawk.
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang
Of the hawk tribe, the varieties are numerous: the largest is the eagle-hawk, which now and then carries off a lamb from the flocks of careless shepherds.
From Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. by G. F. Davidson
Together with the eagle-hawk the crow plays a great part in the mythology of S.E.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 by Various
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