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Jerfalcon, and Goshawk — sokol, krechet, i yastreb — including the 

 Red Jerfalcon or Saker, krasnii krechet. Chapter iii. relates 

 to "the Balabdn^ a species of Falcon," namely, the Lanner 

 (although in Persia this name is applied to the Saker — see note 

 to No. 343) ; chapter iv., the Peregrine YzXcon^ sokol ; chapter v., 

 the Eleonora Falcon, chernyui ; chapter vi., the Hobby, kopetsi, 

 a name also applied to the Merlin {kopets is a small lance, or 

 dart); chapter vii., the Merlin, derbnik, with a section entitled 

 *' Hawking in the Nineteenth Century," and details of the quarry 

 killed with different hawks ; chapter viii., short-winged hawks, 

 yastreba ; chapter ix., the Goshawk, velikii yastreb ; chapter x., 

 the Sparrow-hawk, w^ZtV jj'a^//'^^/ literally the little Goshawk; 

 chapter xi., procuring, rearing, and managing hunting birds, 

 ao6biBaHic BocnHTaHie h coAepiKaHie jiobhhxt. nTHii,T. [Lobiivanie 

 vospetanie e soderzhanie lobchi^ ptits) — this chapter is illus- 

 trated with figures of jesses, swivels, blocks, &c. ; chapter xii., 

 " calling off " and training eyesses and flying them, instruc- 

 tions, remarks, and advice, with figures of hoods. 



The following are the Russian names for Falcons and Hawks, 

 extracted from the authorities above quoted : — 

 Jerfalcon. — Female, Krechet; male, Tschelig-krechatoi. 



With the Bashkir-Tartars, male, Schonkar ; female, Itelgoe. 

 White Jerfalcon : Chetvertnoi Krechet. 



The orthography of the Tartar name for the Jerfalcon 

 varies, and has probably been written phonetically by the authors 

 who have attempted to quote it. Pallas has Schonkar. The 

 Swedish traveller Strahlenberg,* who refers to the white falcons 

 " which are sent in great numbers to China from the province 

 of Dauria," calls the bird Tzungar. Mr. A. O. Hume, the lead- 

 ing authority on the birds of India, identifies with the Shanghar 

 a bird which he describes and figures under the name Falco 

 Hendersoni (" Lahore to Yarkand," 1870, p. 171), but which Mr. 

 J H. Gurney thinks may be only a stage of the Saker, and is 

 identical with Falco jnilvipes, Hodgson. 

 Falcon {i.e., Peregrine). — Female, Sokol ; male, Tschelig Sokolei. 



* " An Histori-geographical Description of the Norih and Eastern part of Europe 

 and Asia, but more particularly of Russia, Siberia, and Great Tartary, both in 

 their ancient and modern state. Written originally in High German by Mr. 

 Philip John von Strahlenberg, a Swedish officer, thirteen years captive in those 

 parts. Now faithfully translated into English. 410. London. 1736." 



