ii8 OTTER HUNTING, FALCONRY, SHOOTING 



long-winged hawks we have the following : — Peregrine ; 

 jer- or gyr- falcon (these names include the Iceland, 

 Greenland, and Norway falcons) ; lanner ; sacre ; Barbary 

 falcon ; hobby ; merlin. Of short-winged hawks : — 

 Goshawk and sparrow-hawk. 



I. — Long-winged Hawks. 



It may be well to say at once that falconers of the 

 present day do not use the lanner, sacre, or the Barbary 

 falcon (though the last kind, I should think, would 

 be found excellent for partridges) ; and the gyr-falcon * 

 is very seldom to be found in training now. 



Let us begin with the peregrine {Falco peregrinus), a 

 bird to which I, at least, owe more than half the 

 pleasure of my life, and one to which Lord Lilford 

 was devotedly attached. 



Peregrines taken from their nests in the crag are 

 called eyesses ; those caught in their after-life, in the 

 bow-net, are haggards, if in the adult plumage ; if in 

 the first plumage, red hawks. All hawks, in fact, are 

 either eyesses or 'wild-caught.' 



Eyesses must be hacked ; this is quite necessary 

 with the peregrine, and hardly less necessary with the 

 merlin. 



What is hacking.^ It is this : 



A hamper has arrived, from Scotland, let us say ; 



* Lord Lilford once had a Greenland falcon, which he much 

 liked.— G. E. F. 



