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The Animal-Lore of Shalcspeares Time. 
The laner and laneret, 
The hockerel and bockeret, 
The saker and sacaret, 
The merlin and jack merlin. 
The hobby and jack: 
There is the stelletto of Spain, 
The blood-red rook from Turkey, 
The waskite from Virginia: 
And there is of short-winged hawks, 
The eagle and iron [erne], 
The goshawk and tercel, 
The sparhawk and musket, 
The French pye of two sorts: 
These are reckoned hawks of note and worth; but we have also of an 
inferior rank— 
The stanyel, the ringtail, 
The raven, the buzzard, 
The forked kite, the bald buzzard, 
The hen-driver, and others that I forbear to name.” 
Some confusion seems to have prevailed in the names 
given to the different kinds of hawks here and elsewhere. 
By the ringtail and hen-driver are probably meant the' 
hen-harrier of modern times. According to Yarrell 
(British Birds , vol. i. p. 133)— 
“The old male, from his almost uniform ash-grey colour, is often 
called provincially the dove-hawk, blue hawk, or miller, and by the 
general name of hen-harrier. The female, or ring-tail, is entirely 
different. Though it has been previously supposed by many natural¬ 
ists that the hen-harrier were the male and female of the same 
species, others held the opinion that they were distinct, and Montagu 
seems to have been the first who actually and clearly proved that the 
remarkable difference between these two birds was but a sexual 
peculiarity.” 
Tbe same authority informs us that eyas , or nyas, was the 
name of the young peregrine taken from the nest, as dis¬ 
tinguished from the 'peregrine or passage hawk, a young- 
bird caught during the period of migration; while 
haggard was used for a bird caught after the first moult 
was completed, and reclaimed. If kept over a moult 
