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her petty singles and her long singles ; the terrial of her legs was stained 

 with blood.' ' You lie, Doddy peck, your hawk's but a kestrel.' ' Scurvy 

 patch, you have not a good hawk on your perch, or a good hound in your 

 kennel.' ' All that love Singleton draw ; ' 'all that stand for Trevilian lug 

 out.' Petty singles Avere the toes. Such a conversation we might suppose 

 to arise in the scene depicted in the illustration, taken from ' La Venerie de 

 Jacques du Fouilloux, seigneur dudit lieu, gentil-homme du Pays de Gastine, 

 en Poictou. Dedie au Roy. A Paris, chez Pierre David, sur le Pont Noeuf 

 deuant la Samaritaine. 1640.' " 



It is not every Falcon which turns out a success as a means of sport. 

 In the first edition of Yarrell (1843), Captain Green, of Buckden, in 

 Huntingdonshire, is stated to have taught a Golden Eagle to capture hares 

 and rabbits. I remember this bird well. His master used to carry him on 

 a pole, and found the weight to be an obstacle. Captain Green tried the 

 same thing with a White-tailed Eagle QHaliceetus alhicilla), but could make 

 no hand of the latter, — the nature of the species being different ; and the 

 particular individual was too fierce and wild to be trusted, as he mentioned 

 to me. The Golden Eagle, in Yarrell's first edition (p. 10), is said to 

 inhabit Iceland ; this is corrected in the fourth edition. 



Mr. W. Thompson says (in the ' Birds of Ireland,' vol. i. p. 30), speaking 

 of the Moor-Buzzard (Circus (Eruginosus), " A brood of these birds, taken 

 some years ago from a nest on the mountains of the county of Monaghan, 

 was reared by Captain Bonham, of the 10th Hussars, for the purpose of 

 being tried in falconry ; but they proved very intractable." 



One would not imagine the Raven to be a very suitable subject for the 

 falconer's skill; yet HoUinshed mentions (vol. i. 'England,' p. 382), 

 " buzzards, kites, and such as annoie our countrie dames by spoiling their 

 young breeds of chickens, duckes, and goslings, whereunto our verie rauens 

 and crowes haue learned also the waie ; and so much are our rauens giuen 

 to this kind of spoil, that some idle and curious heads, of set purpose, have 



