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it had been captured at Uidliiigtou in Norfolk, and restored to 
liberty. 
lieferring to Heron-hawking in Norfolk as practised by Colonel 
AVilson, afterwards Lord Berners, I’rofessor Newton remarks {loc. 
Cif.) : — “The hawking at ilidlington furnished amusement to the 
whole neighbourhood, and strangers came from afar to witness the 
uncommon spectacle.” Amongst these strangers, it would seem, 
was a Staffordshire gentleman, who under the initials “ J. C.” has 
left on record a description of a day’s Ifcron-haAvking which he 
enjoyed at Hidlingtoniu June, 1825. This account, which is too 
long to bo (piotcd here, will ])c fouml in Loudon’s ‘^lagazineof 
Natural History,’ vol. iv. (1831) j). -131, and has been reprinted 
in an abbreviated form, tliougli without acknowledgment of the 
source whence derived, in Bishop Stanley’s ‘ Familiar History of 
Birds’ (p. 128). Although containing some few inaccuracies 
excusable in a writer not conversant with the technicalities of the 
sport, it nevertheless deserves, as the relation of an eye-witness, to 
bo noticed in the annals of Hawking in Norfolk. 
In this account the writer particularly refers to “four men who 
had the immediate care of the fidcons (seemingly Dutch or 
Germans).” In the autumn of 1877, while staying at Valken- 
swaard, in North Brabant, whither I had repaired to learn the 
Dutch method of taking and training “passage-hawks,”* I had 
the good fortune to meet with one of these four men, by name 
Mohr (then between seventy and eighty years of age), and the son 
of another of them, Peter Bots, who still keeps the hostelry known 
as ‘ The Falcon,’ at A'alkenswaard. Adrian Mollen whose acquain- 
tance I also made, in October 1877, and from whom I learnt a 
great deal about hawking, Avas hrlconer to Lord Berners from 1833 
to 1836. As Alohr’s name has not been mentioned by Profes.sor 
Newton in his biographical sketches of the Dutch falconers who 
visited England at the period referred to, I Avill here transcribe 
from my note-book Avhat I learned of his history from his 
OAvn lips. 
‘ Although noAv on crutches, he was once fin active falconer and 
fisherman, and years ago, ivhen a boy, had accompanied Bots (the 
* Tins method I have fully detailed, ivith illustrations, in the Falconry 
columns of ‘ The Field,’ of the 16th of February, and 16th of March, 1S78. 
