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OjST IIAWKIXG near YARMOUTH. 
Rt Alfred Newton, M.A., F.R.S., Hon. Mem. 
Read 2 ^th May, 1879. 
My friend Mr. Hooper, Rector of Upton, near Didcot, has been 
kind enough to lend me the first volume of ‘ Tlie Hive, or Weekly 
Entertaining Register’— a magazine, which, as he tells me, had a 
siort life, and at the present day is certainly hut little known. 
1 of magazine, hearing date Decemher 
IbLL, IS an article headed “ Hawking,” to vdiicli he, having read 
tie notes I contributed to tlie Appendix to hlr. Southwell’s 
edition of Lubbock’s ‘Fauna of Norfolk,’ was so good as to call 
iny attention. The author’s name is not given, and it is evident 
that he had little knowledge of the subject, but it seems to mo 
that a few extracts from the article may interest members of this 
Society, as it appears to refer to an exhibition of the sport in 
which that very keen falconer, Mr. Downes of Gunton, near Lowes- 
to t, took part, and of that gentleman very little is recorded. 
Copies of ‘The Hive’ also, as my friend informs me, arc now very 
rare. The beginning of the article contains nothing but what is 
well known to all who have read of or seen the practice of Hawk- 
ing, and therefore contains nothing that need here be reproduced. 
Alter this introductory matter the writer proceeds 
“ I had been, with my family, on a visit to a gentleman, of that 
meritorious inciuisitiveness, which denotes a busy and a curious 
mind. We went merely to see a collection of pictures and draw- 
ings, which were admirably well executed. Among others, there 
were some excellently well finished birds, particularly those of the 
falcon tribe. -While wo were looking at them, he told us that one 
of txiem was a portrait, and said he would shew us the original. 
He went out, and presently returned with a hawk upon his lilt, in 
the manner of a falconer. It was hooded, and seemed perfectly 
