380 NOTES. 



Page 10. Varro his Ariarij. 



In book iv. section 7, and page 388, of Dr. Hakewill's Apo- 

 logy, No. 21 in the preceding list, are several particulars of 

 Varro's passion for birds, and his extensive aviaries, quoted 

 from himself, Lucius Accius. and Columella, with particular re- 

 ferences to each. Marcus Terentius Varro, was a very learned 

 Roman, who was Lieutenant to Pompey in his piratical wars, 

 and who obtained a naval crown. Cicero greatly commends 

 his erudition, and to him he dedicated his five books " De 

 Lingua Latina," in his 80th year. Beside these he wrote nearly 

 five hundred volumes, which are now all lost, excepting a Trea- 

 tise De Re Rustica, in book iii. of which some notices of his 

 aviary may be found. 



Page 10. This for the Birds of Pleasure. 



To these may with propriety be added the practice of the 

 Persian Kings mentioned by Robert Burton in his " Anatomy 

 "of Melancholy," Land. 1670. fol. part 2, sect. 2, memb. 4, 

 page 1G9, col. 1, which he quotes from Sir Anthony Shirley's 

 Travels. " The Persian Kings," says he, " hawk after butter- 

 " flies with sparrows made to that use, and starrs (starlings) : 

 " lesser hawks for lesser games they have and bigger for the 

 " rest, that they may produce their sport to all seasons. The 

 " Muscovian Emperours reclaim eagles to let fly at hindes, 

 " foxes, etc., and such a one was sent for a present to Queen 

 " Elizabeth : some reclaim ravens, castrils (young kites or 

 " bastard-hawks), pies, etc. and man them for pleasure." In 

 the very entertaining Life of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, 

 Lond. 1778. 4to. p. 134, it is related that M. De Luynes, subse- 

 quently Prime-minister of France in the early years of Louis 

 XIIL, "gained much upon the King by making hawks fly at 

 " all little birds in his gardens, and by making some of those 

 " little birds again catch butterflies," Hawkins. 

 Page 10. Mr. G. Sandys in his Trarels. 



George Sandys, or Sandies, was the seventh or youngest son 

 of Dr. Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York from 1576 to l. r >88, 

 and was born in the Archiepiscopal palace at Bishopsthorpe, in 

 1577. In 1 588 he was entered of St. Mary's Hall, Oxford ; and 

 in August 1 G 10, lie departed on his travels through Europe and 

 Asia, which occupied two years, and of which he published an 

 account in folio, with many plates, in 1615, and repeatedly re- 

 printed. Sandys was not only pious, learned, and accomplished, 

 but he was also one of the best versifiers of his time ; and in 

 poetry he published " Ovid's Metamorphoses Englished," 1626, 

 folio: — A Paraphrase upon the Psalms of David, etc. 1636, 

 octavo : — Christ's Passion, a Tragedy, translated from H. Gro- 

 tius, 1640, 12mo : — and a Paraphrase upon the Song of Solo- 



