120 PASSERES. LANIAD^E. 



Paines. These Hawkes are in no Accompt with 

 us, but poore simple Fellowes and Peasantes 

 sometimes doe make them to the Fiste, and being 

 reclaymed after their unskillfull Manner, do beare 

 them hooded, as Falconers doe their other Kind 

 of Hawkes whome they make to greater Pur- 

 poses. Heere I ende of this Hawke, because I 

 neyther accompt her worthe the name of a Hawke, 

 in whom there resteth no Valour or Hardiness, ne 

 yet deserving to have any more written of her 

 Propertie arid Nature, more than that she was in 

 mine Author specified as a Member of my Divi- 

 sion, and there reputed in the Number of long- 

 winged Hawkes. For truely it is not the Pro- 

 pertie of any other Hawke, by such Devise and 

 cowardly Will to come by their Prey, but they 

 love to winne it by main Force of Winges at 

 random, as the round-winged Hawkes doe, or by 

 free stooping, as the Hawkes of the Tower doe 

 most commonly use, as the Falcon, Gerfalcon, 

 Sacre, Merlyn, and such like, which doe lie upon 

 their wing, roving in the Ayre, and rufie the 

 Fowle, or kill it at the encounter." 



Notwithstanding the slighting tone in which 

 this author treats the attempts of the " poore 

 fellowes " to reclaim this bird, Willughby affirms 

 that it received a more refined and scientific con- 

 sideration. " Although," says he, " it doth most 

 commonly feed upon insects, yet doth it often set 

 upon and kill not only small birds, as finches, 

 wrens, &c., but (which Turner affirms himself to 

 have seen) even Thrushes themselves : whence it 

 is wont by our falconers to be reclaimed and made 

 for to fly small birds." 



But upon the Continent the Shrike appears to 



