134 ' FALCONRY. 



lift Mr. Ray^ has left us only the bare name of a falcon 

 in his lift of the EngUfD birds, without mentioning 

 the fpecies : our own enquiries have not been attended 

 with any great fuccefs ; our difcoveries only amount- 

 ing to three kinds, to be defcribed hereafter j but ex- 

 cept the Lanner^ none feem to have been noted a- 

 mong the BritiJJo birds by any of our countrymen. 

 The Falcon, Goiliawk, Lanner, Sacre, and the Gyr- 

 falcon * are mentioned as natives, both in our old 

 o-amelaw, and by feveral of our naturalifts. Cam- 

 den -f alfo conjedures the fpecies which Henry II. fent 

 for every year out of Pe?nbrokeJIjire^ to have been the 

 Peregrine Falcon -.^ but notwithftanding, we do not 

 find their names in Mr. Rafs lift, (which is our 

 authority for things not feen by ourfelves) yet we 

 doubt not but they ftill exift in thefe kingdoms, par- 

 ticularly in Scotland, which produces many birds in 

 common with Norway -, th's we difcovered in a large 

 col! jftion of thofe of Scandinavia, prefented by Mr, 

 Fleifcher oi Copenhagen : among which were fome of 

 the falcon tribe that are ranked as Briti/h by our old 

 writers. We may here take notice that the Norwegian 

 breed was, in old times, in high efteem with our 

 countrymien : they were thought bribes worthy a 

 king. JeoffreyFitzperre gave two good Norway hawks 

 to king John, to obtain for his friend the liberty of 

 exporting lOO weight of cheefe : and John, the fon of 



• Burn's jujiice. Careiv^s hijl. Corn^va!/, 25. Sil'. hljl. Scot. i^. 

 Memfspinax, 17O. 



f p. 758. — Girald. Catnhrenfuy 156. — Scotland., the Weft em I/Ies, 

 the Orheys, and the Jjle of Man, have been much celebrated for their 

 £ne breed of hawks. 



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