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Eagle claiming more attention than the trained falcons, the 

 sport was once more suppressed. Nor was it again revived 

 until 1866. 



In that year a little band of enthusiasts formed the " Cham- 

 pagne Hawking Club," with John Barr for their falconer, and 

 for three seasons enjoyed some excellent sport at rooks, crows, 

 pies, partridges, stone curlews, and little bustards. M. Alfred 

 Werle was president, and amongst the members were MM. le 

 Vicomte de Champeaux-Verneuil, le Baron d'Aubilly, le Comte 

 le Couteulx de Canteleu, le Vicomte Georges de Grandmaison, 

 le Comte Fernand de Montebello, Julio Alfonso de Aldama, and 

 Pierre Amedee Pichot. The unavoidable return of John Barr 

 to England, and the impossibility of finding a substitute, led 

 unfortunately to the dismemberment of the club. In 1879, 

 however, through the efforts of M. Paul Gervais, another revival 

 took place, and his example was followed by MM. Sourbets, 

 Saint Marc, Foye, Belvalette, Cerfon, and Edmond Barrachin, 

 all of whom are keeping hawks at the present day, and with the 

 aid of M. Pichot are helping to find goshawks for the English 

 falconers who are five or six times as numerous. 



XVII. Italian Falconers of the Seventeenth 

 Century, Partridge-hawking with the Goshawk. 

 From an engraving by Tempesta, 1622 ; reproduced 

 from the work of Olina (No. 278). 



Antonio Tempesta (b. 1555, d. 1630), a Florentine painter 

 and engraver, was a pupil of Stradanus (or, to give him his real 

 name, Jan Strada), a Fleming. Other plates of his will be 

 found mentioned in the note to No. 278. 



XVI I I. Lorenzo de' Medicl Born, 1448; died, 



1492. Author of a celebrated poem, " La Caccia col 



Falcone." 



This portrait of " Lorenzo the Magnificent," whose life has 

 been so ably written by William Roscoe (2 vols. 4to, 1796), is a 

 facsimile of the frontispiece to that work, and a brief notice of 



