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that of his colleague, Verster van Wulverhorst,* are also included. 

 A key to these portraits is given by M. Pichot in his latest work 

 on Falconry in the Paris Exhibition of 1889 (No, 221), where also 

 will be found portraits of Adrian MoUen (p. 38) and John Barr 

 (p. 23), besides several English falconers of the present day. 



By the rules of the club the annual subscription was fixed at 

 not less than one hundred florins, and the hawking season com- 

 menced on the 15th May and continued until the loth July or 

 thereabouts. 



The number of hawks (peregrines and jerfalcons) maintained 

 by the club, and the number of herons taken by them " on 

 passage," appear in the following table : — 



Herons 



Details of the sport may be found in the works of Schlegel 

 (194) and Pichot (207), in the anonymous brochure (193), and 

 in an article by M. de Rodenburg published in \he. Journal des 

 Chasseurs in 1855. 



When taken uninjured the herons were often liberated, after 

 having a brass ring fastened on one leg, inscribed with the name 

 of the club and the date of capture. They were sometimes 

 retaken at long intervals at a considerable distance from the 

 Loo. Thus, Dr. Campanyo, in his Histoire Naturelle du D'eparte- 

 vient des Pyrenees Orieniales, 1863, states (p. 225) that in April 

 1845, an old male heron was killed on the farm of M. Lacombe, 

 at Saint Michel, near Perpignan, which had a plate on the leg with 

 an inscription to the effect that it had been taken two years 

 previously by a falcon belonging to the Loo Hawking Club ; and 

 that in 1856 another heron was killed on the seashore at Alenya, 

 near Perpignan, having on one leg a similar plate, which it had 

 carried for seven years. 



