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The former called Hawks are wont to be divided by Falconers into Long-pinged 

 and Short-winged. Thofe they call Long-winged whofe Wings when clofed reach al- 

 mod: to the end of the tail : Thofe they call Short-winged whofe Wings when clo- 

 fed fall much fhort of the end of the tail 5 of which fort we have feen two greater, 

 viz. the GoJhawk.andSj>arrowhawfa and three lefTer, viz. the three forts o£ Butcher- 

 birds. 



But becaufe that diftincfion of Hawks into tame and in Id is arbitrafious and de- 

 pends upon inftitution 3 but the other into Long-winged and Short-winged hath its 

 foundation in nature, and may be accommodated to all Hawks in general 3 we wili 

 prefer it before that, fiift treating of' the Long-winged Hawks. 



Hawks in refpecl: of their age are divided by Falconers into i. Nyas orEiaJ/e- 

 Hawkj, which being taken out of the Neft, or brought away in the Neft before 

 they can fly, are brought up by hand. 2. Ram age-Hawks or Branchers, which are 

 taken when they are fledg'd and got out of the Neft, but depart not far from it, fly- 

 ing only from bough to bough, and following their Dams, not being able yet to prey 

 for themfelves : from Ramus fignifying a bough. However they be taken, after they 

 have preyed for themfelves the firft year, while they retain their Chicken-feathers, 

 they are called Sore-hawks ? from the French word Soret, fignifying a dusky colour. 

 The fecond year, when they have changed their feathers, they are called Enter me wers, 

 from the word muto to change. The third year they are called White Hawks, for 

 what reafon I know not. The fourth year, when they are come to their full growth 

 and perfection, they are called Hawks ofthefrji coat- the fifth year, Hawks of the 

 fecond codt? the fixth year, Hawks of the third coat 5 and fo on as long as they live. 

 Some of them, if they be well tended and favoured while they are young, will hold 

 out twenty years. The feathers of all by age gradually grow whiter, as mens hairs 

 grow grey, fo that by how much the older they are, by fo much the whiter are they. 

 The outmoft feather of the Wing is by our Falconers called the Sarcel by the number 

 of the dents whereof they pretend to know the age of the Hawk, as by the number 

 of crofs bars in the tail, the age of a Pheafaant. 



But of the manner of feeding, training up, reclaiming, and curing the difeafes of 

 Hawks, thofe that have written of Falconry are to be consulted. 



Chap. VII. 

 Of Long-winged Hawks, 



LOng-winged Hawks may be divided into the more Jlnggijh and indocile, which 

 we call wild Hawks, and the more generous, fuch as ufe to be trained up for 

 Fowling. Thofe we call wild Hawks are the Bald Buzzard, the Common Buz- 

 zard, the Honey-Buzzard, the Ring-tail, the Kite or Glead, and the Moor-Buzzard. Of 

 which in order. 



Chap. VIII. 

 f Of the federal forts of wild long-winged Ha^ks, and firft, 



} . I. 

 Of the Bald Buzzard. vjyL 



*His Bird is by Aldrovandus twice put among Eagles. 1. tinder the'^titfe of 

 Halwetus, Lib. 2. Cap. 3. 2. Under the title of Morphnos, in the feventh 

 Chapter of the lame book. 

 The Bird we defcribed weighed fifty fix ounces and an half [If herein Mr. Wil- its wdghc, 

 Inghby be not miftaken, I fee not but this Bird might well enough pafs for an Eagle : 

 But! fufpecl: an error in the weight.] Its breadth, or the diftance between the ex- breadth, 

 tremities of the wings extended was fixty Inches. The Beak from the point to the Beak, 

 Angles of the mouth an inch and half long, black, hooked, covered from the Bafe 

 as far as the Nofthrils with a blewifo skin or Sear, bunching out between the 



Nofthrih 



