40 BOOKS ON FALCONRY. 



Bombay Army. London, John Van Voorst. 1852. 

 post 8vo. 



For a writer having no practical knowledge of the subject, but 

 merely describing what he saw and heard, this little book is 

 well written, and has a charming frontispiece by J. Wolf repre- 

 senting a Goshawk seizing a gazelle, with other illustrations. 



The errors in the text are evidently due to the fact of the 

 author not always understanding what he saw, or heard described. 



6^, SALVIN (F. H.) and BRODRICK (W.). Fal- 

 conry IN THE British Isles. With coloured plates 

 of all the Hawks used by Falconers. London, John 

 Van Voorst. 1855. roy. 8vo. 



Second edition, 1873. The best modern book in English on 

 the art and practice of Falconry. The second edition is to be 

 preferred for the emendations and additions to the text, but the 

 illustrations to the first edition are much superior. An interest- 

 ing review of the second edition written by the late A. E. Knox, of 

 Trotton, Sussex, appeared in the Quarterly Review for July 1875. 



68. FREEMAN (G. E.) and SALVIN (F. H.). 



Falconry : its Claims, History and Practice. To 

 which are added remarks on Training the Otter and 

 Cormorant, by Captain Salvin. London, Longmans. 

 1859. 8vo. 



Though out of print, a work to be commended ; by two prac- 

 tical falconers, both of whom are still living. The chapter on 

 heron-hawking as pursued 40 years ago was communicated by 

 the late Edward Clough Newcome, of Feltwell Hall, Brandon, 

 Norfolk, one of the best practical falconers of modem times, 

 and the last who kept Heron-hawks in England. In 1843 

 he had two remarkable Heron-hawks, " De Ruyter" and 

 "Sultan," which were brought from Holland by the Dutch 

 falconer Jan Pells, and in that year took 54 herons, and in the 



