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have lefs Beaks than thereft. 3. Andlaftly, They are 

 lefs armed and pounced than other Faulcons. 



Of all Hart^ks there is none fo fit for a young Faul- 

 coner as the Lanner^ becaufe flie is not inclined to Sur- 

 feits, and feldom melts Greafeby being over-flown. 



There are a fort of Lanmrs which Eyrie in the 

 Alps^ having their Heads white and flat aloft, large 

 and black Eyes, llender Nares, (hort and thick Beaks, 

 and lel?cr than the Haggard or Faulcon- gentle. Some 

 are indifferent large, fome lefs, and others middle- 

 lized. 



Their Mail is marble or rudet » their Breaft-fea- 

 thers white and fuUof ruflet fpotss the points and ex- 

 tremities of their Feathers full of white dropsy their 

 Sails and Train long : they are (hort Leg'd , with a 

 foot lefs than that of a Faulcon, rnarble-feer'd > but 

 being mew'dthe Seer changeth to a yellow. 



The Lanner never lieth upon the Wing after (he 

 hath flown to Mark , but after once flooping (lie ma- 

 kethaPoint, and then, like the Gojfjawk^, waits the 

 Fowl. 



If llie mi-fs at the firft down- fail and kill not, (he will 

 confult her advantage to her greate(t eafe. 



Thefe kind of Hawks are highly prized in France 

 and Italy , neither is (he defpifeable in England i but 

 we look upon them as flothful and hard-metled : and 

 therefore if you intend to have any good cfher, keep 

 a Arid hand over her » for (he is of an ungrateful dif- 

 polition, and will flight your Kindnelfcs , contrary to 

 the nature of the Faulcon-gmk , who for one good 

 ufage will return a treble courtefie, and the better (he is 

 rewarded, the better fliewill fly, - 



They are flown at Field or Brook, and are Hawks 

 that rhaintain long flights, whereby much Fowl is kil- 

 led ( and more than by a better Hawk, J by reafon of 

 Dogs and Hawking-^oles. 



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