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the hawk and her paraphernalia, etc., which to some extent he 
was able to do in the Lecture Room at Gloucester, but cannot 
here. 
1st, then, the hawks employed. 
These, as formerly, are of course divided, in falconers’ 
fashion, into—“ Hawks, long and short winged ;” and a very 
suitable division it is. In fact, Falconry proper means the 
employment of some species of falcon, long-wiuged: Hawking, 
that of some species of short-winged hawk. For all practical 
purposes, the long-winged hawks employed, consist of the three 
varieties of the great Northern falcons, called Jerfalcons, or 
Gyr falcon, viz., the Greenland, Iceland, and Norwegian Jer- 
falcons, the Hobby, and the tiny Merlin ; and last and best, the 
well-known Peregrine falcon. This sheet-anchor of the falconer 
in all ages and in every clime (for she truly deserves her name— 
Peregine Pelerin or Pilgrimsfalk)—is found at various periods 
of the year in most countries, where her peculiar and lovely 
stoop has in every age been a terror, not only to the swift but 
also to the strong. Yes, beloved bird, well may I praise thee! 
Adorned with every good gift—beauty, grace, strength, and un- 
matchable speed, courage, skill, and perseverance—to all these 
dost thou add the tameness and docility that so admirably adapts 
thee to be the companion, friend, and servant of man. Once 
held in the highest esteem by prince and noble, and never far off 
from thy owner, even when the day’s sport was done, thow hast 
not changed. My friends and I have ever found thee exactly 
what our ancestors found thee, and as all who seek shall find 
thee, as long as thou art to be found. But what a change has 
occurred in thy old relations to man, in England! No longer 
legislated for, and defended by custom from all harm, thou hast 
become a sort of common enemy, and the most ignorant of 
gamekeepers, deems and treats thee as “vermin,” with the 
sanction, and by the desire, of him who should know and treat 
thee better, if for no other reason, then for the sake of 
thy faithful services to his predecessors, over the very lands, 
whereon I have had the pain of seeing thy poor skeleton 
depending from a vile rusty nail on the keeper’s gibbet—thee 
