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species are all migrants from the south. Of those summer visitors to Palestine special mention may be made of the Falco sacer and the Falco lanarius. (See NIGHT-HAWK.)
•HAY properly so called, was not in use among the Hebrews; straw was used instead. They cut the grass green as it was needed. The word rendered “hay” in Proverbs 27:25 means the first shoots of the grass. In Isaiah 15:6 the Revised Version has correctly “grass,” where the Authorized Version has “hay.”