134 BOOKS ON FALCONRY. 



400 works in Spanish, including MSS. relating to the chase in 

 all its branches — hunting, shooting, fishing, fowling, and hawk- 

 ing. In addition there is a list of 226 anonymous works on 

 these subjects, including several MSS. on Falconry, 17 sporting 

 novels, and 26 ** Comedias con titulo venatorio," the whole 

 prefaced by an Introduction of a dozen pages. 



261. TJHAGON (Francisco R. de). Los Libros 

 DE Cetreria del Canciller Pero Lopez de Ayala, de 

 Juan de Sant-Fahagun, y de Don Fadrique de Zufiiga 

 y Sotomayor. Noticias reunidas por D. Francisco R. 

 de Uhagon. Madrid. 1889. 8vo. 



In this essay of 30 pp., of which only 100 copies were 

 printed, the author makes a critical examination of the three 

 celebrated Spanish works on Falconry by the writers above 

 mentioned. He shows, by means of extracts printed in parallel 

 columns, that the supposed original work of Juan de Sant- 

 Fahagun is almost entirely founded upon that of Pero Lopez de 

 Ayala, and in a great measure copied from it, several passages 

 being literally transcribed, and others only slightly paraphrased. 



See note to No. 230, Sant-Fahagun, anteh p. 117. 



A remarkable instance of plagiarism is quoted on p. 16. 

 Ayala remarks that certain falcons (" baharis sardos, et mallor- 

 quinos," &c.) commence to moult sooner and get through the 

 moult quicker than any others. Sant-Fahagun repeats this 

 observation in slightly different words, Ayala then adds : " Yo 

 vi un falcon del Rey Don Pedro que dizian ' Doncella ' \i.e.y 

 " the waiting-maid "] et era bahari de Romania et garcero [a 

 heron-hawk] et altanero [and a high-flier] et vilo la primera 

 semana del mes de Agosto ser ya fuera de la muda et desay- 

 nado [and enseamedj et aquella semana matar una garga." 



Sant-Fahagun, not to be outdone, actually asserts : " Yo vi 

 en fin de Julio un falcon bahari sardo de Don Alfonso Anri- 

 quez, almirante de Castilla, ser mudado y desainado y matar 

 garza ! " 



We may well exclaim with Senor de Uhagon, " rara casuali- 

 dad ! chocante coincidencia ! " 



In Spanish as in other languages the earliest printed books 

 on Falconry do not always contain the oldest treatises. Those, 

 for instance, of the Prince Juan Manuel (No. 226) and the 



