8o O^^ClTHOLOgr, Book II. 



all great-bodied. The greater part of them of an oblong figure, and fome mode- 

 rately round : Very like to the Peregrine for Shape, Head, Beak, and Feet. The 

 Thighs on the infide covered with white feathers. The Wings great : The Train long. 

 Almoft all the feathers are of a brown colour. For the greateft part of their bodies 

 they are like a brown Peregrin, excepting the Head and Shoulder-blades, which in 

 the Dutch are a little blacker. A white Coronet encompafles their Head near the 

 Neck. The fpots of the breaft in mod are brown and great, in fome ferrugineous 

 and oblong. But in luch as are mewed, that is, have caft their firfb feathers, the Head 

 Neck and Shoulders are brown 5 the Back of an Azure-colour, diftinguilhed with 

 tranfverfe brown marks: The Throat white, fpotted with great lines. The Breaft 

 The German darker than in the Peregrine ; But the Feet like that of the Peregrine. The Males or 

 Falcon differs Tarcels ofthefe Dutch Falcons can by no meaqs be diftinguiihed from the Males of 

 thing from the Peregrines, they are in all things fo like the one to the other. Befides, they do fo 

 the Peregrine, refemble the Peregrines, not only in the external fhape of their bodies, but alfo in 

 their nature and conditions 5 that none but a very quick-lighted, cunning, and well 

 pra&ifed Falconer is able to diftinguifh them. 



§. VI. 



* The Haggard Falcon 5 Falco gibbofus. 



T is fo called becaufe by reafon of the ihortnefs of the Neck, the Head fcarce ap- 

 pears above the points of the Ihoulders, or Wings withdrawn and clapped to the 

 fides of the Back 5 fo that it feems to have a bunch on its back. The Germans call it 

 Fin Hagerfakk-) or rather Hogerfalc^ whence the Latine name Gibbofus: For the 

 Germans call a bunch Hoger. Our Englifi Writers of Falconry, as far as I underftand 

 them, call the Peregrine Falcon the Haggard Falcon,ufmg thole names promifcuoully : 

 Wherefore wefhall not enlarge further concerning this Hawk 5 eipeciajly feeing what 

 Aldrovandus hath of it, is all taken out of Alberts Magnus ■> on whole credit we do 

 not much rely. 



§. VII. 



* The white Falcon. Falco Albus. 



OMitting again what Aldrovandus hath borrowed out of Albertus concerning the 

 White Falcon : we will only tranfcribe out of him, the delcription of the Fal- 

 ccn fent him by his Nephew Julianus Griffbnius, which he received from Angelus Gal- 

 ksof Vrbin, a Knight of Malta. 

 its Colour, Its whole body was milk-white, only fpotted with yellow fpots, the which them- 

 wings, felves alfo appeared white, unlefsone needfully and intently beheld it. The Wings 

 were like thofe of other the moft beautiful Hawks, but purely white, and without 

 Train, fpots. The Tail had twelve feathers alike white, and fpotted with yellow 5 the fight 

 whereof the uppermoft feather ( which was wholly white, and covered the reft, 

 Beak, , hiding them as it were in a fheath ) took away. The Beak alfo was rather white than 

 Feet, blue. The Feet, after the, manner of other Hawks, yellow. The Eyes yellow and 

 Eyes - black : And that yellow nothing deeper than in a Hawk not yet mew'd, which we 

 commonly call a Sore? although I cannot believe that this was a Sore. For it might 

 fo come to pafs, that it might retain that yellownefs from a certain temper of body 

 peculiar to this kind : Otherwife it would, after it was mewed, neceflarily incline to 

 whitenefs. It was of a tall ftature, a great and ftately bird : It eat not but with its 

 Eyes ufually (hut, and that with great greedinefs. It killed Pullets. 



$. VIII. 



* The Stone-Falcon, and Tree-Falcon. Falco Lapidarius & Arborarius. 



OF the figureof the Stone-Falcon thefefew things occur in Albertus Magnus. It 

 was of a middle quantity and ftrength between the Peregrine and Gibbofe or 

 Haggard Falcon. 



A full defcription of iheTree-Falcon we have in Gefner, which (asMx.WiUughby 

 thinks ) agrees well to the Hobby. The Tree-Falcon ( faith he ) is a gallant and gene- 

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