FRENCH. 93 



2 vols. 8vo in 1759, a 3rd vol., containing the ^^ Memoires 

 historiques sur la chasse" being subsequently issued in 1781. 

 It is in this third volume that we find some interesting his- 

 torical notices of Falconry, and an extract from the poem on 

 Hawking by Gace de la Eigne (No. 143). 



A two volume octavo edition, edited by Charles Nodier, was 

 published in Paris (De Longchamps), in 1829. 



182. HUBER (M.). Observations sur le Voldes 



OiSEAUX de Proie, par M. Huber de Geneve. Accom- 



pagnees de figures dessinees par I'auteur. A Geneve, 



chez Paul Barde. 1784. 4to. 



This treatise, illustrated with six folding plates, is restricted 

 to an elucidation of the different modes of flight in the long- 

 winged falcons and the short-winged hawks {les oiseaux raineurs 

 et les oiseaux voiliers). Being communicated by the author 

 to Mauduyt, it served the latter as a basis for his article 

 " Fauconnerie " in his " Encyclopedic M^thodique," published in 

 Paris the same year. From an observation by Huber (p. 44), 

 it would seem that he had prepared a more extensive work on 

 Falconry, which was never published. 



183. BTJCHOZ (Pierre Joseph). Les Agremens 



DES Campagnards dans la Chasse des Oiseaux, et le 



Plaisir des Grands Seigneurs dans les Oiseaux de 



Fauconnerie. Paris. 1784. sm. 8vo. 



Almost all that this author has to say on the subject of 

 Falcomy is taken from the Dictionnaire Theorique et Pratique de 

 Chasse, the editor of which in turn compiled his remarks from 

 Tardif, d'Arcussia, and other writers who had preceded him. In 

 the chapter on Heron-hawking, Buchoz states (p. 172) that in 

 1723 the Emperor Charles VI. took a heron which was found 

 to have on one leg a ring which had been attached by Ferdinand 

 III. in 165 1. This was removed and a new one substituted, 

 and the bird once more restored to liberty. " It must have been 

 at least 72 years old when it was captured for the second time," 

 unless on the first occasion some one, for a joke, attached an 

 old ring instead of a new one. 



