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fifty years since ; keeping alive its traditions when its practice 

 had all but expired ; reviving it when his own enthusiasm, by 

 infecting others, had given promise for its continuance ; and 

 performing feats hitherto unknown in the annals of the art. 

 Untired in his devotion, even by the drudgery of the labour of 

 love he undertook, as an efficient falconer he was unequalled, 

 whether by professionals or amateurs," His assiduity and 

 success are shown by the fact that he trained eyess falcons to 

 take wild herons on passage. He was the last who kept heron- 

 hawks in England, and an interesting account, communicated by 

 himself, of two remarkable birds which he possessed, named 

 " Sultan " and " De Ruyter," will be found in Freeman's and 

 Salvin's "Falconry" (see note to No. 68). The late Mr. J. D. 

 Hoy, of Stoke-by-Nayland, in Suffolk, an eye-witness of the 

 sport which was enjoyed at Didlington, High Ash, and Cranwich, 

 has left a pleasing account of what he saw in a fragmentary 

 journal not long published (" Trans. Norfolk Nat. Soc," vol. ii. 

 p. 390), which has also been quoted by Professor Newton in 

 his Appendix to Lubbock's " Fauna," above mentioned. 



XL Fleming of Barochan, Renfrewshire, with 

 HIS Falconers, John Anderson and George Harvey. 

 Engraved by C. Turner from a painting by J. Howe, 

 of Edinburgh, 18 11. 



A remarkable instance of a succession of falconers from father 

 to son for many generations occurs in the ancient family of the 

 Flemings of Barochan, near Paisley, in Renfrewshire. The 

 member of that family whose portrait is here given kept the 

 Renfrewshire Subscription Hawks, which were flown chiefly at 

 partridge and woodcock, from the commencement of the present 

 century until his death in 18 19. His grandfather was a 

 celebrated falconer, and a more remote ancestor, Peter Fleming, 

 at the end of the fifteenth century, on the occasion of his beating 

 the King's falcon with a tiercel of his own, received from 

 James IV. of Scotland (1488-15 13) a jewelled hawk's hood, 

 still preserved in the family. 



He is here represented on horseback, carrying a hooded 

 falcon, and followed by a favourite black poodle. At his horse's 

 head stands John Anderson, a celebrated Scotch falconer, with 



