74 ©f v^m^ mxn i^amm. 



Their Plumes are different : fome are fmall plumed 

 and blank H^m^j^r, others of a larger Feather, fonre 

 plumed like the Quail, fome brown or Canvas-mail'd, 

 and others have juft thirteen Feathers in their Train, 

 &c. 



To be (hort, this Charader I may juftly give the 

 Sparrow'happkjx) general, that (he is in her kind, and 

 for that Came her ftrength will give her leave to kill, 

 a very good Hawkf Belldes, he that knows how to 

 man, reclaim, and fly with a Sparrow-hatvJ^^ may 

 eafily know how to keep and deal with all other 



And herein lieth an excellency in the Sparrow-hawk^^ 

 (he ferves borh for Winter and Summer with great 

 pleafure, and will fly at all kind of Game more than 

 the Faulcon. If the Winter-5'/'tfrro«'-/:».«iri;^prove good, 

 (he will kill the Pie, the Chough, the Jay, VVood-cock, 

 Thrufh, Black-bird, Felfare, with divers other Birds of 

 the like nature, 



Hou) to make a Sparrow-hawk, whether Byejl, 

 Bramhert Soar, Mew' A, or Haggard. 



Sparrou>'haw\s are to be confidercd as all other 

 kinds of Hawkj are, according to their age and difpo- 

 fition. 



The feveral kinds o( Spamrv-harvJ^s may be compre-. 

 Inended under thefc five heads > the EyeJJes or NyeJJefy 

 Branchers^ Soars ^ Men? V, and Haggards. 



Eyeffes^ are mewed in the Wood, and are taken in 

 the Eyrie. 



Branchers^ are thofe which have forfaken the Eyrie, 

 and are fed near it by the old ones on Boughs and 

 Branches. 



Sear-harvkf^ arc fo called, becaufe, having forfaken 



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