126 BOOKS ON FALCONRY. 



Although alone it faileth now, 

 Of feet made oars, of curved beak a prow. 

 Sails of its wings, and rudder of its tail ; — 

 Poor wretched heron, said I then, thy strife 

 'Gainst two opposing ills, are of my life 

 Too true an image ; since it is to-day 

 Of two distinct desires the hapless prey. 



'Gainst this, 'gainst that, as either doth assail, 

 It furl'd its wing, and droop'd its languid sail, 

 And placing its dazed head beneath the one, 

 Trusting to fortune, like a plummet-stone 

 Straight down it fell, we looking, from afar 

 Saw it descending, an incarnate star 

 Through the dark sky, 

 With the pursuing falcons ever nigh." 



245. MARTINEZ DE ESPINAR (Alonso). Arte 



DE Ballesteria y Monteria, cscrita con methodo para 



escusar la fatiga que ocasiona la ignorancia. Dividida 



en tres Libros .... en el tercero se declaran las ca- 



lidades de las Aves, y el modo de cazarlas, con dos capi- 



tulos curiosos al fin ; el uno de la caza del Perro de 



muestra ; y el otro del cabestrillar con el Buey.* Escrito 



por Alonso Martinez de Espinar . . . . de orden de S- M. 



En Madrid en la Emprenta Real afio 1644. 4to. 



Another edition, "enNapoles, por Francisco Ricciardo, 1739." 

 Another, "en Madrid, por Antonio Marin, afio de 1761,'' 410. 

 This work of 420 pp., with portraits of Don Carlos and the 

 author, and several full-page illustrations, contains (lib. iii. cap. i.) 

 remarks "del Aguila y sus propriedades y de otras Aves de 

 rapina," with chapters on the following kinds of hawks — Alcon 

 Girifalte [the gerfalcon] crianse en las montanas de Noruega, y 

 en las de Irlanda [qu. Icelanda], y Suecia : los mejores son de 

 Noruega, aunque son mayores de cuerpo los de Irlanda [sic] y 

 tienen el plumage mas bianco. 



* P«rro de muestra^ pointer; Buey del cabastrillo, stalking-ox. 



