J^l/SS/AM 189 



According to Haller (No. 336), this book, from which he 

 gives extracts (p. lo), has already become scarce, and the first 

 edition is perhaps hardly to be obtained. 



It contains a detailed account of the ceremony observed by 

 the Tsar Alexis Michaelovitch on the appointment of a royal 

 falconer, the ceremony taking place at Kolomensk, a village 

 near Moscow, where the Tsar often went for hawking, and 

 where the imperial hawks were kept. 



The hawk-house here contained, it is said, as many as 3000 

 (^u. 300) different Falcons, Jerfalcons, Goshawks, and Sparrow- 

 hawks. They were fed, according to Kaschikhine, an historian 

 of the seventeenth century, upon beef and mutton brought daily 

 from the imperial larder, and upon pigeons, which the falconers 

 had the right to catch everywhere and bring to Moscow to a 

 spacious pigeon-house, containing, it was said, 100,000 birds, 

 which were fed upon bran, rye, and wheat. 



The Tsar was said to know every hawk by name, and usually 

 bestowed the names himself. Their transport from the places 

 where they were caught was effected under special regulations, 

 inattention to which was severely punished (cf. Haller, p. 15). 



336. TAwI^EP'L (K.). OXOTA CT> COKOJAMII II flCTPE- 

 13AM II. neiepGypn.. 1885. 



Haller (C). O^ota s' Sokolami t Yastrebamt. 

 Peter burg. 1885. 



Haller (C). The Chase with Falcons and 

 Hawks. St. Petersburg. 1885. 



In February 1884, under the auspices of Prince Alexander 

 Petrovitch of Oldenburg, a Falconry Club was organised at 

 St. Petersburg, and the author of this book, the late Mr. Con- 

 stantine Haller, was elected the first president thereof. His 

 enthusiasm for the sport prompted him to publish this contri- 

 bution to the literature of Falconry, in the hope that it might 

 give encouragement to its attempted revival. 



With the exception of the code of rules and regulations issued 

 by the Tsar Alexis Michaelovitch (No. 331), which can scarcely 

 be termed a treatise on Falconry (although containing many 



