The booke of falconrie or havvking for the onely delight and pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen : collected out of the best authors, aswell Italians as Frenchmen, and some English practises withall concerning falconrie / heretofore published by George Turbervile, Gentleman.

For what cause this Falcon is called a Barbary, or Tartaret Falcon.

THese kind of Falcons are called Barbarie Falcons, for that most commonly they make their passage through Barbary and Tunyse, where they are taken more often thā in any other place: As namely, in the Isles of Leuant, Candy, Ci∣pres and Rhodes, where these Hawkes do more frequent and vse, then in any other Region, and the country men will sooner take them, by endeauour if they may, then any Hawkes that are eyréed in their Country. And truely I do not thinke, that in any other place, there are so many good Crane-slayers, as there are to be had in the Isle of Candy. The reason of it is, for that the Nobility and states of the Country, are much more enclined to kéepe those kind of Hawks that will kil the Crane, then any other people are elsewhere, and they doe enure and make their Falcons to that kind of game, more than to any o∣ther fowle. And surely you shall there haue excellent good Hawkes.

Thus much it hath pleased mine Author to write of, and in commendation of the Barbarie Falcon: but here with vs in England, I neuer saw or heard of the proofe of those hawkes, to be so good or excellent, as by his report I find them. Sondry other kind of Falcons proue better with vs here, as namely, the Falcon Gentle, the Haggart, and such like, which eyther are passengers, or brought to vs from other Countries. The

Barbarie Hawk is much lesse then eyther the Falcon gentle, or the Haggart, and therefore I will onely follow mine Au∣thor as thuching her prayse, and so procéede to the next kind of Falcons, deliuering you both the opinion of the Italian, and French Gentlemen therein.