PREFACE vii 



description of falconry from the pen of the Rev. Gage 

 Earle Freeman. 1 



Nearly all of the pictures which illustrate this 

 volume are studies of individual birds in the collection 

 at Lilford. 



Our thanks are rendered to Mr. E. G. B. Meade-Waldo 

 for his help in reading through the proof-sheets, and his 

 kind interest in the preparation of the book. 



1 Author of Falconry: its History, Claims, and Practice. We 

 have much pleasure in quoting in this connection a passage we 

 find in a letter written by Lord Lilford to Mr. Freeman in 1895 : 

 " You have done more to keep English falconers in the right way 

 than any man now living. No such practical work as yours has 

 been written on falconry this century." 



LORD LILFORD'S FAVOURITE FLOWER. 



