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.

Out of the French I haue collected this concer∣ning the Goshawke.

Some men haue thought, and béene of this resolute mind, that the (Author) or Goshawke hath béene of the kinde of a Vulture, for the affinity and nearenesse of their tearmes and names: for (Autour) in the French, is that Hawke whome we call the Goshawke, and (Vautour) is the Vulture, which 2. tearmes as you sée, draw very neare to one speech.

Some other haue béen of opinion, that betwixt the Goshawk and Sparowhawke, is no ods or difference in nature, saue on∣ly in respect of the hugenesse of that one, and the slendernesse of the other: but my purpose is to treat of the Goshawke seue∣rally from the Sparowhawke, and so to procéede to the Spar∣rowhawke, of whome I will write according to the French & Italian Authors, in a seuerall Chapter by it selfe, to avoide the confusion, which otherwise might happen in that behalfe.

The Goshawke is euer more regarded than her Teircell, for the males or cockes among Hawkes and birds of prey, doe make euident proofe, and shew to the eye, of their difference frō the females and Hawkes.

Againe we may with ease discerne the Goshawke from her Tyercell, for that shée is farre larger, then the Tyercell of her kind.

The Falconers & Ostregers, haue to these two sorts, added a third kind (as I sayd before) whome they teranie the Demy∣goshawke, as a bird indifferent, betwixt the other twoo.

Both kinds of them are more hie, and longer armed, then eyther the Falcon, or Gerfalcon: they are Hawkes of the fist, and (as we call them) round winged Hawkes, quite contrarie

to those I wrote of before, all which are Hawkes of the lure, and long winged Hawkes, otherwise called Towre hawkes.

The Hawke (I meane the female) is very much like the Eagle in mayle, and if we may make bold to compare y^e lesse with the larger, she hath a more stately high necke then the Eagle, & of a more red or yron mayle, the ground of her plume and downe tending to a red colour.

Those Goshawkes that are of Slauonia, are good at all ma∣ner of game, large, hardy, & faire plumed, their tongs blacke, and their nares great and wide.

There are Goshawkes, whome the Italians call Alpisani, or hawkes of the Alpes, which are much vsed in Lombardie, & Tuscane, they are more thick thē they are long, fierce, & hardy.

But those Goshawks that our Ostregers haue now adayes, are cheifly conueied out of Almaine, hauing their eyes & the seare of the beake, as also of their féet and legs yellow, contra∣rie to the Gerfalcon, whose seare is blew and azure.

Their traines are garnished with large droppes or spottes crossing the feather, party blacke, and party grey, as also the plumes of the necke and head are more towards a russet, and powdred with blacke, but those of the thigh, and vnder the belly or pannell, are otherwise marked, for they are not full so yellow, hauing round drops on them, not much vnlike those that are on the Peacockes trayne.

The Goshawkes of Almayne are not very fayre, though they be large Hawkes, red mayled, and yet not hardy.

There are sundry of them good in their soarage, but being once mewed, proue nothing worth: there be diuers of them ta∣ken in the forrest of Arde, and in sundrie places of Almayne. The Gréekes haue called the Goshawke Hierax, the Latines Accipiter stellaris, and the Italians Astuy.

Thus much haue I collected out of another French author, as necessarily belonging to the description of the nature of a Goshawk, because you shall see the seuerall opinions of sundry writers, and gather to your owne vse, what shall occurre and thwart best with your liking, for it is not the mayle and plume

of the Hawke that I so greatly regard, or doe meane to stand vpon, as the making, reclaiming, diseases, and cures of the said Hawkes, each one after their proper nature and quality, if so my health will giue me leaue to runue mine authors through aduisedly, according to my meaning and resolution, at what time I first vndertooke this collection.