2i0 lALCONRY. Class II. 



" The cinereous eagle is frequent in the south- 

 ern parts of Russia, as far as trees grow, parti- 

 cularly about the Volga, where it winters and 

 breeds, and though scarce in Sibiria, has been 

 observed as far as lake Baikal"* J. L. 



■^A^ ^-ocn n-^-s-^' FALCONRY.- -^^ .^^'^^-^l^m 



Falconry was the principal amusement of our 

 ancestors : a person of rank scarcely stirred out 

 without his hawk on hts hand; which, in old 

 paintings, is the criterion of nobility. Harold, 

 afterwards kins of England, when he went on a 

 most important embassy into Normandy, is 

 painted embarking with a bird on his fist, and a 

 dog under his arm;t and in an antient picture 

 of the nuptials of Henry VI. a nobleman is re- 

 presented in much the same manner ;:}: for in 

 those days, It zvas thought sufficient for nohle- 

 tneris sons to xvinde their horn and to carry their 

 haxvk fair, and leave study and Icarn'mg to the 

 children of mean people.^ The former were the 

 accomplishments of the times ; Spenser makes 

 liis gallant Sir 7rij^r«»2 boast, ^ or i^jv^itty^i 



* Pallas. MS S. - -' ^ ■ ^ 



■f Montfaucon, monumens de la monarchiefrancoise, i. 372- 

 X Mr. JFalpoles anecdotes of paintings i. 33. " 



§ Biog. Brit, article Caxton. 



