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Sippe Hierofalco Cuv. 1817. 
Probatur, quod haec ars sit nobilior caeteris et supradictis. Itaque 
palam est, quod ars venandi cum avibus et ars est et caeteris venatio- 
nibus: nobilior et dignior et ideo prior. — Fridericus Imperator. 
Falco gyrfalco Gm. 
Ars capiendi falcones columba et lanio, instituendi, venandi gazel- 
las, ardeas, aviculas etc. propriis artificibus commissa in luxuriam 
magnatum, ridenda etiam a stulto. — Lin. 
Falco candicans Gm. 
Unguibus et rostro audacius ferit, Non ita falcones nigri, qui 
lardiores sunt, quia corpora nigra vel fusca porosa sunt, de facili eva- 
poratione spiritus, tuncque lassantur et debilitantur; quamvis sint agiles 
per naturam. E contra autem alba frigida habent confertas carnes et 
quia sunt multi humidi, multorum sunt spirituum et propler carnium 
conserlionem non cito evaporantia et ideo diu durant in labore. 
Claud, histor. sept. 
Der Falck ist der Riupa Verfolger. Wenn er sie gefangen und 
ein Loch in dieselbe gehauen hat, fangt er an zu schreien. Man sagt, 
dass diess aus Traurigkeit geschehe. weil die Riupa seine Schwesler, 
die er nicht kennt, bevor er an das Herz kommt. — Povelsen. 
Falco peregrinus Lin. 
The. falcon from her cair on hight 
Cast to the rout a wondering eye. — Scott. 
Fam. STRIGIDAE Leach. 
Venerable ruins crumbling under the influence of time and vieis- 
situdes of season, are habitually associated with our recollections of 
the owl, or he is considerated as the tenant of somber forests, whose 
nocturnal gloom is rendered deeper and more awfull by the harsh dis- 
sonance of his yoice. In the poetry he has long been regarded as the 
appropriate concomitant of darkness and horror, and when heard screa- 
ming from the topmost fragments of some mouldering wall, whose rug- 
gedness is but slighly softened by the mellowing moonlight, imagination 
loves to wiew him as a malignent spirit, hooting triumphantly over the 
surrounding desolation. — Ch. Lucian Bonaparte. 
Sippe Syrnium Sav. 1809. 
From yonder ivy mantled tower 
The mopping owl does to the moon complain 
Of such as wandering near her secret bower 
Molest her ancient solitary reign. — Gray. 
Sippe Stryz Lin. 1767. 
Nequidquum seros exercet noctua cantus. 
Stryr flammea Lin. 
Out on ye owls 
Nothing but songs of death. — Sheakesp. 
