56 FALCONIDyy.. 



frequently Hown at Partridges, and sometimes at Magpies. 

 The youug of the year, on account of the red tinge of their 

 plumage, are called, the female, a Red Falcon, and the male, 

 a Red Tiercel, to distinguish them from those which have 

 accomplished their first moult. Eyas, or Nyas, is the name 

 of a youug bird taken from the nest, as distinguished from the 

 Peregrine or Passage-Hawk, a young bird caught during the 

 season of migration ; while Haggard is used for a bird caught 

 after the first moult is completed, and reclaimed. If kept 

 over a moult, they were then called Intermewed Hawks. The 

 term Geutil Falcon seems to have often had a general rather 

 than a particular meaning, and the bird so called by Pennant 

 is certainly a Gos-Hawk, while the Lanner of the same 

 author is a youug female of the present species, at which 

 ao-e it bears some resemblance to the true Lanner, Falco 

 lananus, which probably has never been killed in this 

 country. 



Sir John Sebright, in his ' Observations on Hawking,' 

 thus describes the mode of taking Herons : — "A well- 

 stocked heronry in an open country is necessary for this 

 sport, and this may be seen in the greatest perfection at 

 Didlingtou in Norfolk, the seat of Colonel Wilson.* This 

 heronry is situated on a river, with an open country on 

 every side of it. The herons go out in the morning to rivers 

 and ponds at a very considerable distance, in search of food, 

 and return to the heronry towards the evening. 



"It is at this time that the falconers place themselves 

 in the open country, down wind of the heronry; so that 

 when the herons are intercepted on their return home, they 

 are obliged to fly against the wind to gain their place of 

 retreat. When a heron passes, a cast (a couple) of hawks 

 is let ffo. The heron disarorses his food when he finds that 



Professor Schlegel in his great work has shown this derivation to be an error, 

 and the naine appears to have been given from the old belief that each nest 

 contained three young birds, of which two were females and the third and 

 smallest a male. — Traite de Fauronncrie, p. 1, note. 



* Subsequently Lord Berners. Didlington is now (1871) the property of Mr. 

 Tyssen Amhurst, and the heronry, though its site is changed, still exists. 



