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1896. Peculiar mode of fishing of the Great Black-backed Gull. (Ann. 
Scott. N.H. pp. 256-7.) 
Hamilton (Colonel John Potter), 1778-1873 
John Potter Hamilton was born in 1778. He became a 
Cornet in the Scots Greys, 1793 ; Lieutenant-Colonel, 1813 ; 
Special Commissioner to Colombia, 1823 ; signed treaty of 
amity, April 18, 1825 ; K.H., 1836. He died at Bodleyfryd, 
Wrexham, January 28, 1873, aged ninety-five. 
The undermentioned work is worthy of note on account 
of the chapters on falconry, but Mr. Harting states that 
these contain numerous errors “ owing to the author’s want 
of practical acquaintance with the subject.” The work also 
contains information on game birds, British and foreign. 
Colonel Hamilton also wrote Travels through the Interior 
Provinces of Colombia , etc. (2 vols. 8vo, 1827). 
1860. Reminiscences of an old Sportsman, with 6 full-page illustrations. 
London : 1860. 
Collation — 2 vols. post 8vo. Vol. I. pp. xii + 2 11. + pp. 298, 
with 3 pi. Yol. II. pp. viii + 308 with 3 pi. 
Note . — The last four chapters of Yol. II. (pp. 171-308) are 
devoted to Falconry, including the History and Literature of 
Falconry, Hawking Establishments, Natural History of the 
Falcon, Method of Taking, etc. 
Hancock (John), 1807-90 
The name of Hancock will be best remembered by his 
association with Newcastle-on-Tyne, to the Museum of 
which town he presented his fine collection of birds in 1884. 
He was born in the town in 1807, and losing his father, who 
was a tradesman in Newcastle, while yet a child, he received 
but a poor education, a deficiency deeply felt by him in after 
years, and doubtless one of the reasons why it was only with 
the greatest difficulty that he could be induced to lay before 
the public any of the store of knowledge which he possessed. 
It is said that he was from his boyhood devoted to the study 
of natural history. In 1826 Bewick wrote of him as “a 
