BLACK-CAP HAWK. 
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Is falconry. Tliis science, if it may lie so called, 
4tlaJ*’.'S the few that have never yet travelled across the 
Ouf jjtic ; neither does it appear that the idea of training- 
‘ “"vlis or eagles to the chase, ever suggested itself 
The 
according to certain 
to 
Tarj.^ the Indian nations of North America. 
Vfij '^> however, from whom 
] ®‘'By of these nation.s originated, have long 
•** * practice of this sport; which is indeed 
Mliw.'^'t'ted to an open connti-y than to one covered 
Though once so honourable and so uni- 
}t is nou' much disused in Europe, and in 
*** a 'n nearly extinct. Yet I cannot but consider it 
’tell more noble and princely amusement than 
and cock-fighting, cultivated in certain 
’s litjn" "-h so much care ; or even than pugili.sm, which 
'^**’tUt patronized in some of those enlightened 
h. 
SUBGrNUS V JSTirj!, BECnSTEIN. 
^^LVMBAEIUS, LIA’N FALCO ATraCJFJZLUS, WILSON. 
"Us 
ash-coloured, or black-cap hawk. 
ft.APE Lll. FIG. III.* EDINBURGH COLLF.GE MUSF.UJI. 
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'^'^I'tioi * heautiful species I can find no precise des- 
'’e taUi'I ash-coloured buzzard of Edwards dilfers 
*'?-Za,' *1. *f®ttt this, particularly in wanting the fine 
’tf a” ’’“es helow', and the black caji, that I cannot 
suppose them to be the same. The 
ft here described was shot within a few miles 
