The booke of faulconrie or hauking for the onely delight and pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen: collected out of the best aucthors, asvvell Italians as Frenchmen, and some English practises withall concernyng faulconrie, the contentes whereof are to be seene in the next page folowyng. By George Turberuile Gentleman.

The difference and oddes betwixt the Hag∣gart, and the Falcon Gentle.

FOr that diuers haue delight to know the difference betwixt the Falcon Gentle and the Haggart, I will here shewe you

certayne speciall poynts concernyng the difference of them both. First the Haggarte is a larger hawke than the Falcon gentle, and a longer armed Hawke, with a reasonable large foote, and hyr talons more long than the Falcon gentles are, a high necke and a long, a fayre seasoned head, and a more long beake than the other hath.

1 The beame feathers of the Haggart, as she is in hyr flight, are longer than the Falcon gentles, hir trayne somwhat larger, the Haggart hath a flatte thighe, but the Falcon gentle a round thighe.

2 The Haggart will lie longer on hyr wings than the Fal∣con gentle, and hath a more deliberate and leasurely stroke than the other Falcon hath, as I sayd before.

3 From the fiste, it is reported by some, that the Falcon gen∣tle dothe flie more speedely than the Haggarte, but at a long flight the Haggarte is farre the better of both, and doth excell all other kinde of Hawkes both for good wing, and maynteynance of hir flighte. Which is a perfite proofe of a very good backe.

4 The Falcon gentle is more hastie and whote in all hyr doings than the Haggarte, and is thought more rashe and out∣ragious of nature than the Haggart is. And whē they flee togi∣ther, the Falcon gentle will make hir stowping and downe∣come more vnaduisedly, and will vse the greater haste to be at hir pitche agayne than the other, and missing the fowle at the stowping, the Falcon gentle is in the greater chafe, and will presently flee on head at the checke, so as many times she is harde to come by agayne. Whereas the Haggarte is more deliberate and better aduised, whiche proceedeth in my opinion, for that she better knoweth the aduantage of hir flight, than the Falcon gentle, bycause she hath bene forced often to praye for hir selfe, and hath not bene subiect to the order of any keper, neyther hath had any hande kepte vpon hir, to make hir eger and greedie of the praye, more than naturally she is accustomed to flee at hyr seasons, to gorge hir selfe, whiche she doth both aduisedly and to great aduantage.

5 The Haggarte Falcon is taken in Candie, Rhodes, and

many other places, of that Sea whiche is called Archipelagus, or the Iegean Sea.

6 The best sorte of those Haggart Falcons, haue their beakes of the colour of Azure.

7 Those of Cyprus whiche are small Hawkes and of a rus∣set mayle, they are the moste hardie and ventrous Hawkes of all others.

Much more might be sayde, as touchyng the Haggarte and Falcon gentle, but, for that the Hawkes are dayly in hand and vewe, and bycause I haue a larger field to eare, whiche is, to lay you downe the mannyng of them, and such things as are more necessarie to a good Falconer. I leaue it, and will proceede to the next kinde of Falcon, whiche is the Tartaret or Barbarie Falcon. As touchyng whose name and nature I meane to deliuer you, what I haue gathered as well out of the French copie, as also borowed from the Italian, whom I do much reuerence as well for his language, as for his rare and deepe deuise in all things wherein he doth deale. (∴)