. Natural history of birds, fish, insects, and reptiles . ture, the yJugoIa andtlie Bengal vultures, the tawny vulture, andmany others, but which there is great reason toconclude are mere varieties of the above. THE FALCON AND ITS AFFINITIES. ALTHOUGH the birds of which we are nowabout to treat are considerably smaller than anyof the preceding, yet they are no less importantto man^ from contributing to his they must have been particularly so;for notwithstanding the sport of hawking is lit-tle practised in the present day, and almost En-tirely disused in this kingdom, from th
. Natural history of birds, fish, insects, and reptiles . ture, the yJugoIa andtlie Bengal vultures, the tawny vulture, andmany others, but which there is great reason toconclude are mere varieties of the above. THE FALCON AND ITS AFFINITIES. ALTHOUGH the birds of which we are nowabout to treat are considerably smaller than anyof the preceding, yet they are no less importantto man^ from contributing to his they must have been particularly so;for notwithstanding the sport of hawking is lit-tle practised in the present day, and almost En-tirely disused in this kingdom, from the impe-diments thrown in its way by the multiplicity ofmodem inclosures, yet it was the principalamusement of our ancestors. Formerly a per-son of rank scarce stirred out without his hawkon his hand, and in old paintings this appen-dage is considered as the criterion of ^ before he was king of England, wenton a most important embassy into Normandy,and which circumstance is recorded bv an oldpainting, in which he is drawn as embarking ^ith. Jfonry Suxxarcl.
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