2 PRACTICAL FALCONRY. 
have you friends who will give you pretty frequent permission ? 
Because the kind of country, the depth of pocket, the courtesy of 
friends, are all very necessary elements in this as in many other 
sports. : 
“If you are rich, and have opportunities for hawking game, and 
wish to hawk it, engage a professional falconer; but take care that 
he isa man accustomed to game-hawking. If you are a poor man, 
intending to hawk game, and having some opportunity of doing so, 
strive to know some good falconer, who will really show you the 
thing ; and also—if I may venture to say so—read these chapters, 
which are, honestly, the result of long experience. 
I need hardly speak of the character of country to a rich man, 
for he can most likely command countries of different character ; 
but the man who can only hawk here or there will certainly want 
to know, at any rate, what birds not to keep. 
Let us suppose that he has no game—no rabbits even—but that 
there is an open common near him affording rooks, magpies, 
pigeons, larks. Not the goshawk then ; his hawks are the peregrine 
and merlin. Does he live near moors on which he can hawk? Still 
the peregrine. On fairly-open partridge ground? The peregrine 
still. But the goshawk is the bird for a very inclosed country ; 
and, should he care to fly the sparrowhawk, he may add that. 
This is just a rough and. general answer to the question, “ What 
sort of hawks « man ought to have?” And now we come to the 
second point: “‘ How is he to procure them?” 
As to the peregrine, I can only say generally that the species breed 
on high and dangerous rocks, both by the sea and inland; and that 
young birds are obtained by falconers, very frequently from Scot- 
land, either from = personal friend or through John Pells, of Laken- 
heath, Suffolk, or Robert Barr, Brandon, Suffolk. It is a difficult 
matter to procure goshawks; but they may occasionally be 
got from one of the professional falconers, or from the Regent's 
