R E D - T A L L E D FALCON. 205^^ 



Ii2,(?9* J a proof of its antiquity in thefe parts, when it formed fo 

 regular and princely an eftablifliment in the ftate of this great eaftern 

 monarch; the origin of which might have been in fome long pre- 

 ceding age. The cuftom of carrying a Falcon extended to many 

 countries, and was efteemed a diftinftion of a man of rank. Thd ■ 

 IVelJh had a faying, that you may know a gentleman by his Hawk^ 

 Morfe, and Grehound. In fadl, a perfon of rank feldom went without 

 one on his haiid. Harold'-, afterwards king o{ England-, is painted: 

 going on a moft important embafly, with a Hawk on his hand, and 

 a Dog under his arm |». i/^^ry VI.. is reprefented at his nuptials, at=- 

 tended. by a nobleman and his Falcon %. Even the ladies were not 

 without them, in earlier times; for in an antient fculpture in the 

 ^ViXz!n.o{ Milton Ahhas-, 'm Borfetjhire, appears the confort of King 

 Athelftan with a Falcon on her royal fift § tearing a bird :. and, perhaps 

 VQ indulge his queen in her paffion for the diverfion, he demanded.. 

 of my countrymen (befides an mnmenfe tribute) fome of their molt 

 excellent Hounds, and of their bed Hawks : which proves the high, 

 cfteem in which our Dogs and Falcons were held in thofe earing 

 «iaya|[. 



American Buzzard, ifl//5««is, i. 50.— Lev. Mas. ioo.Red-taueb*- 



"E^ With a duflcy bill, and. yellow cere : head, lower part of the 

 * neck, and chin, brown, mixed with white : breaft and belly 

 white, varied with long ftripes of brown,, pointing downwards: fe- 

 moral feathers very long, white, and marked with long dentated- 

 ftripes of pale brown : upper part of the neck, and hack, of a very 

 deep brown : coverts, and tertials brown, barred or edged with white : 

 primaries dufky, barred with cinereous: tail of a pale ruft-colora. 

 marked near the end with- a dufky narrow bar 5 legs. yellow. Size 

 of the Gojhawk. 



Inhabits North America. Stnt from Carolina to Sir AJhtonLever^ . Fi-AeEi.. 



* Bergeron, 7S> 76." f Monumen: it laMonarchie Fran^oife, i. 372. X-Mr-.- 



Walpole's Anecdotet of Painthg, i. 33.- § Hutchins's Dor/etjhiftt ii»-443.- 



Jl Malm/bury^ lib, ii. c, 6» 



3, • F. With-; 



