46 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



have made too long a digression. You are to note 

 that they are usually distinguished into two kinds ; 

 namely, the long-winged and the short-winged 

 hawk. Of the first kind there be chiefly in use 

 amongst us in this nation, 



The gerfalcon and jerkin, 

 The falcon and tassel-gentle, 

 The laner and laneret, 

 The bockerel and bockeret, 

 The saker and sacaret, 

 The merlin and jack merlin, 

 The hobby and jack. 



There is the stelletto of Spain, 



The blood-red rook from Turkey, 

 The waskite from Virginia. 



And there is of short-winged hawks, 

 The eagle and iron, 

 The goshawk and tarcel, 

 The sparhawk and musket, 

 The French pye of two sorts. 



These are reckoned hawks of note and worth, 

 but we have also of an inferior rank, 



The stanyel, the ringtail, 



The raven, the buzzard, 



The forked kite, the bald buzzard, 



The hen-driver, and others that I forbear to name. 



Gentlemen, if I should enlarge my discourse to 

 the observations of the eires, the brancher, the 



