LATIN. 179 



" Hafuiam singulo anno ex Islandise portu Holmenshavn 

 transportantur falcones hi qui postea, venatione edocti, ad 

 varias aulas principum munera inter septentrionis rariora mit- 

 tuntur." 



Writing of the Hobby Falco subbuteo (p. 3), Briinnich states 

 that this bird, as well as the Goshawk and Iceland Falcon, 

 were trained for hawking at the royal villa near Copenhagen. 

 " F.ge7itilis {Blaaefttgl dicitur hie a falconariis Danicis) islandus 

 et subbuteo in villa regia prope Hafniam ad venationes instruuntur." 



He also refers to the falconers' method of imping or repairing 

 broken feathers : — " Retrices Isesge v. detritse reparantur a fal- 

 conariis addendis aliis, acubus nempe belgicis ad basin veteris 

 pennge novam affigunt ; quod observatione dignum ne descrip- 

 tores tali artificio decepti, novas effingant species vel varietates " 

 (P- 3). 



325. SCHNEIDER (Jo. Gottl.). Catalogus AucT- 

 ORUM qui de re Accipitraria scripserunt cum locis 

 inde excerptis. Lipsise. 1788. 4to. 



This catalogue is appended to the author's edition of the 

 work of the Emperor Frederick II. (No. 308), vol. ii. pp. 106- 

 125, but is hardly worth mention, since it does not include notices 

 of more than a dozen works on Falconry. The author, however, 

 was evidently sensible of its deficiency when writing as fol- 

 lows: — " Poterunt facile catalog© huic attexere multos alios, 

 imprimis gallice scriptos de arte falconaria libros, quibus usus 

 publicarum copiisque abundantium literariis bibliothecarum cata- 

 logorumque conceditur, quo mihi carendum est" (p. 125). 



Although allusions to the art of Falconry may be found in 

 the works of several Latin authors not mentioned above, as, for 

 example — 



Aristotle, Hist. An., lib. ix. cap. 36 ; 

 Pliny, Hist. Nat., lib. vii. cap. 10; 

 ^lian, De Nat. An., lib. ii. cap. 42 ; 

 Martial, Epigr., lib. xiv. no. 216; 

 Oppian, Cynegeticon, lib. i. 62-66; 



the passages referred to are not of sufficient length or im- 

 portance to justify the insertion of the full tides of the works 

 in the present bibliography. 



