The Zoologist— October, 1866, 409 



with long poales, very rough and bushy at the vpper endes, of which 

 the willow, byrche, or long hazell are best, but indeede according as 

 the country will afford, so you must be content to take. 



" Thus being prepared, and coraming into the bushy or rough 

 ground, where the haunts of birds are, you shall then first kindle 

 some of your fiers, as halfe, or a third part, according as your pro- 

 uision is, and then with your other bushy and rough poales you shall 

 beat the bushes, trees, and haunts of the birds, to enforce them to 

 rise, which done you shall see the birds which are raysed, to flye and 

 playe about the lights and flames of the fier, for it is their nature 

 through their amazednesse, and affright at the strangenes of the light 

 and the extreame darknesse round about it, not to depart from it, but 

 as it were almost to scorch their wings in the same : so that those 

 which haue the rough bushye poales may (at their pleasures) beat 

 them down with the same and so take them. Thus you may spend as 

 much of the night as is darke, for longer is not conuenient, and doubt- 

 lesse you shall find much pastime, and take great store of birds, and 

 in this you shall obserue all the obseruations formerly treated of in 

 the Lowhell ; especially that of silence, until your fights be kindled, 

 but then you may use your pleasure, for the noyse and the light when 

 they are heard and seene afarre of, they make the birds sit the faster 

 and surer. 



" The byrdes which are commonly taken by this labour or exercise 

 are, for the most part, the rookes, ring-doues, blackbirdes, throstles, 

 feldyfares, linnets, bulfinches, and all other byrdes whatsoeuer that 

 pearch or sit vpon small boughes, or bushes." 



The hawk is mentioned in 'Much Ado About Nothing' (Act iii. 

 Scene 3), and 



" His hawking eye" 



occurs in ' All's Well that Ends Well' (Act i. Scene 1). 



" Twenty crowns ! I'll renture so much on my hawk or hounds, but twenty times 

 so much upon my wife." — Taming of the Shrew, Act v. Scene 2. 



Kite {Falco milvus). 

 * * " The lazar kite."— Henry F., Act ii. Scene 1. 



Although a large bird, and called by some the royal kite [Milvus 

 regalis), it has not the bold dash of many of our smaller hawks in 

 seizing five and strong prey, but glides about ignobly, looking for a 



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