THE ZOOLOGIST. 
THIRD SERIES. 
Vot. IT.) MARCH, 1878. [No. 15. 
THE REVIVAL OF FALCONRY. 
By Captain F. S. Duemore, H.M.’s 64rH ReGimMent. 
SomE ten or twelve years ago H.H. the Maharajah Dhuleep 
Singh, in conversation with the writer, expressed the opinion that 
the revival and successful practice of Falconry in England was an 
impossibility; and I remember hearing my lamented friend the 
late Mr. E. C. Newcome, of Feltwell, express himself in almost 
equally discouraging terms. Probably none were better qualified to 
pronounce authoritatively on the subject than these accomplished 
sportsmen—themselves two of the most successful falconers that 
the nineteenth century has yet produced. So I felt there was 
nothing for it but to accept the adverse verdict, and to give up— 
for the moment at any rate—Falconry in England. 
But I did not finally give up the fond dream of my earliest 
boyhood—the dream of some day assisting to remove from the 
musty category of “the things that were” and to restore to a 
recognized position among the pastimes of our day the noble 
old sport of chivalrous times, when battwes of tame poultry and 
tournaments of doves were unknown, and when all the sports of 
the field were shared in, and graced by, the ladies, instead of 
being, as now, with but few exceptions, monopolized by the 
sterner sex. ’ 
I firmly believe that it is, in great measure, to the general 
participation of our ancestresses in the health-giving sports of the 
field, that we are indebted for the stalwart frames, the vigorous 
manhood, and the invincible pluck for which our English country 
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