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INDEX. 



hare and rabbit distinct kinds ; refuse to mix with each 

 other ; an instance ; laws made for the preservation of them, 

 iii. 116, &c. 



Harfang, or Great Hudson's-Bay owl, the largest of the noc- 

 turnal tribe, iv. 117. 



Harlequin, a kind of dog, iii. 15. 



Harpies, that ancient idea taken from the rousette, or the 

 great bat of Madagascar, iii. 240. 



Harrier, hound, and beagle, all of the same kind, iii. 13. A 

 dog of the generous kind, 14. Used for hunting, 15. 



Hart, name of the stag, the sixth year, ii. 317. 



Hartshorn and musk, the only medicines of reputation of 

 several procurable from quadrupeds, ii. 280. 



Harvey, his opinion about the formation of the incipient ani- 

 mal ; altercations against his system, i. 359. 



Hatching, nothing exceeds the patience of birds hatching; 

 Mr Addison's observations to this purpose, iv. 21. The 

 emu very peculiar in the hatching of its young, 53. The 

 crocodile's eggs hatched in the sand, v. 303. 



Hawfinch, a bird of the sparrow kind, iv. 257. 



Hawk kind; hawk destroys mice, iii. 181. Perceives a lark 

 at a distance which neither men nor dogs couid spy, iv. 9. 

 Distinctive marks from other carnivorous birds, 69. In old 

 paintings, the criterion of nobility ; no person of rank stirred 

 out without his hawk on his hand ; Harold, afterwards king 

 of England, going on an important embassy into Normandy, 

 is drawn, in an old bas-relief, embarking with a hawk on his 

 fist, and a dog under his arm ; in those days, it was sufficient 

 for noblemen's sons to wind the horn and carry the hawk 



^fair; this diversion in such high esteem among the great all 

 over Europe, that Frederick, emperor of Germany, wrote a 

 treatise upon hawking; this amusement now much given 

 over in this kingdom, and why; in the reign of James I. Sir 

 Thomas Monson gave a thousand pounds for a cast of 

 hawks ; in the reign of Edward 111. it was made felony to 

 steal a hawk ; to take its eggs was punished by imprison- 

 ment for a year and a day, with a fine at the king's pleasure ; 

 in the reign of Elizabeth, the imprisonment reduced to 

 three months, the offender to lie in prison till he got secu- 

 rity for his good behaviour during seven years ; in earlier 

 times, the art of gunning was but little used, and the hawk 

 was then valuable for its affording diversion, and procuring 

 delicacies for the table, not otherwise to be obtained ; dis- 

 tinctive marks of the tribe called the long-winged hawks ; 

 their names and descriptions ; have attachment to their 

 feeder, and docility the baser race are strangers to; names 

 of hawks of the baser race ; those of the generous breed 

 remarkable for courage, swiftness, and docility in obeying 

 the commands and the signs of their master ; account of the 



