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the Danish (folio, London, 1758), will be found a description of 

 the mode in which the Icelanders used to capture falcons; and 

 in Anderson's "Account of a Description of Iseland and Groen- 

 land," printed at Hamburg in 1746 (8vo, p. 328), it is stated 

 that from Iceland were brought the finest falcons in the world. 

 The King of Denmark used to send an officer every year to 

 fetch them, and allowed him a good salary ; the price of a white 

 falcon being ten crowns. See also, under Latin authors, 

 Briinnich, Ornithologia Borealis, 1764, pp. 2-3. 



B. Meyer, in his Naturgeschichte der Vogel Deutschlands, 

 published at Niirnberg in folio in 1805, states (under the head 

 of der Isldndische Falk) that a ship which arrived at Copenhagen 

 from Iceland on the ist Sept., 1754, brought a consignment of 

 148 falcons, of which 12 were white ones. The prices then 

 given were— for a Peregrine, 7 crowns; for one of another 

 colour, 10 crowns; and for a white one, 15 crowns. A letter 

 from Copenhagen, dated Dec. 17, 1791, and pubHshed in 

 the St. James's Chronicle of Jan. 10, 1792, states that "the 

 vessel, on board of which were the Falcons from Iceland 

 annually sent to the Court of Vienna, was shipwrecked off 

 Castrop " \sc. Kastrup, Denmark]. 



135. REINHARDT (J.). Falkejagten. Ire popu- 

 Isere Foredrag, holdte i den naturhistoriske Forening 

 i Vinter en 1858 af J. Reinhardt. Kjobenhavn. 1858. 

 8vo. 



Printed in the " Dansk Maandeskrift," 1858, pp. 279-314 

 and 383-412, with two woodcuts — head of a falcon and head of 

 an eagle. 



136. COLLETT (R.). Falkejagten. Udglvet in 



" Folkevennen," et Tidsskrift udgivet af **Selskabet 



for Folkeoplysningens Fremme." Kristiania. 1874. 



sm. 8vo. 



So far as the writer is aware, this article by Prof. R. CoUett, 

 of Christiania, published in the Norwegian journal " Folke- 

 vennen " ("People's Friend") for 1874 (vol. 23, pt. ii. pp. 

 195-224), is the only contribution on Falconry from the pen of a 



