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The former sort are by our people termed Hawks, and by 

 fowlers are divided into long-winged and short-winged hawks, 

 the long-winged being those in which the wings when folded 

 extend almost to the end of the tail. 



The nobler of the long -winged hawks usually trained for 

 fowling among us are : — 



Faleo gentilis [the Peregrine] Tercell-gentle [Tercell, the 

 name applied in falconry to the male hawk of different 

 species] in Ross and the Orkneys. 

 Falco sacer, the Sacre [possibly the female Peregrine]. 

 Gyrfalco, the Gerfalcon. 



Falco Gibbosus. Can this be our Hobby-female* 

 [gibbosus, i.e. hunch-backed, it is futile to attempt to 

 identify this or many others of the birds Sibbald 

 mentions ; he evidently described most of them from 

 hearsay]. 

 Accipiter .Fsalon, Merlin the female. Jack the male. 

 Tinnunculus male and female, Stanchel [the Kestrel]. 

 The short-winged Hawks, the Avings not reaching to the tail, 

 among us are : — 



Accipiter Palumbarius, the Goshawk. The male is called 



the Tercell. 

 Accipiter Fringillarius, or Nisus, the Sparrow-hawk. 

 The baser kind, or unteachable long-winged hawks are : — 

 Balbusardus, the Bald Buzzard [the Marsh-Harrier]. 

 Buteo Vulgaris, the Buzzard. 

 Subbuteo, by some called Buteo albus, the Ring-tail 



[the female Hen-Harrier]. 

 Milvus, the forked-tail Kite, or Gled. 

 Milvus palustris, the Bog-gled. Is this the Milvus 



^F^ruginosus of Aldrovandus ? f 

 Milvus Albicans. Is this the Lanius albicans ? 

 Milvus niger, a black Gled. Is this the Lanius ? 

 Milvus similar in colour to the ash-coloured falcon. Is 



this the Lanius Cinereus ? 

 Cuculus, the Cuckow. 

 The nocturnal birds of prey among us, from hearsay (or 

 according to my witnesses) are : — 



Bubo maximus, of a black and dusky colour. In the 



Orkneys [the Eagle-Owl]. 

 Otus, or Noctua Aurita, the Owl with feathers standing 

 above his ears [the Long-eared Owl]. 



* The Hobby is now a very rare visitor to Scotland. 



t Ulyses Aldrovandus (]522-l(305) author of Ornithologiae de Avibua 

 Historiae, Libri XX. Bologna, 1599-1603. 



