5&6 



ON SOME SPECIES OF THE 



fidelity of his wife, we have the following pas- 

 sage : 



"If I do prove her haggard^ 

 Tho' that her jesses were my dear heartstrings, 

 I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind 

 To prey at fortune." 



And without multiplying quotations, it may be 

 observed, that the old English word haggard, is 

 most generally used in a similar acceptation. 



Falcons are likewise known by different names, 

 according to their age or sex. Thus, the young 

 females are called Red Hawks, or Red Falcons, 

 and the young males Red Tercels. 



When full grown and feathered, the females are 

 called Falcons, and the males Tercels, These ex- 

 pressions, however, are not confined to the Pere- 

 grine Falcon, as Montagu seems to suppose, but 

 are applied to different species ^. 



While they continue in the eyrie, they are call- 

 ed Eijesses, and afterwards are known by the dif- 

 ferent names of Ramage Hawks, Soar Hawks, 

 Slender Hawks, Carvists, and Enter- Mew s ; and 

 to these, and very many more, there have been 

 corresponding varieties, or even species, described 

 by naturalists. 



* The name of Tercel is applied to male hawks, on account 

 of their being usually one-third less than the females. 



