The gentleman's recreation in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing : wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore : whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn, and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation : with an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same.

Of the LANNER, LANNERET, and TUNISIAN.

THe Lanner is a Hawk common in all Countries, especially in France, making her Eyrie on high Trees in Forrests, or on high Cliffs near the Sea∣side.

She is lesser than the Faulcon-gentle, fair-plumed when an Enter-mewer, and of shorter Talons than any other Faulcon. Those who have the largest and best-seasoned Heads are the best Lanners.

With the Lanner or Lanneret you may fly the River; and both are very good also for the Land.

They are not very choice in their Food, and can better away with gross Victuals than any other Hawk.

Mew'd Lanners are hardly known from the Soar∣hawks, (and so likewise the Saker) because they do not change their Plume.

You may know the Lanners by these three tokens. 1. They are blanker Hawks than any other. 2. They

have less Beaks than the rest. 3. And lastly, They are less armed and pounced than other Faulcons.

Of all Hawks there is none so fit for a young Faul∣coner as the Lanner, because she is not inclined to Sur∣feits, and seldom melts Grease by being over-flown.

There are a sort of Lanners which Eyrie in the Alps, having their Heads white and flat aloft, large and black Eyes, slender Nares, short and thick Beaks, and lesser than the Haggard or Faulcon-gentle. Some are indifferent large, some less, and others middle∣sized.

Their Mail is marble or russet; their Breast-fea∣thers white and full of russet spots; the points and ex∣tremities of their Feathers full of white drops; their Sails and Train long: they are short Leg'd, with a foot less than that of a Faulcon, marble-seer'd; but being mew'd the Seer changeth to a yellow.

The Lanner never lieth upon the Wing after she hath flown to Mark, but after once stooping she ma∣keth a Point, and then, like the Goshawk, waits the Fowl.

If she miss at the first down-fall and kill not, she will consult her advantage to her greatest ease.

These kind of Hawks are highly prized in France and Italy, neither is she despiseable in England; but we look upon them as slothful and hard-metled: and therefore if you intend to have any good of her, keep a strict hand over her; for she is of an ungrateful dis∣position, and will slight your Kindnesses, contrary to the nature of the Faulcon-gentle, who for one good usage will return a treble courtesie, and the better she is rewarded, the better she will fly.

They are flown at Field or Brook, and are Hawks that maintain long flights, whereby much Fowl is kil∣led (and more than by a better Hawk) by reason of Dogs and Hawking-poles.

If you will fly with a Lanner, you must keep her very sharp: and because they keep their Castings long, by reason they are hard-metled Hawks, give them therefore hard Castings made of Tow and knots of Hemp.

In the reclaiming the Lanner and the Lanneret much pains and labour must be taken, and the chiefest thing is to make her well acquainted with the Lure, which must be garnished with hard washt meat, and let her receive the major part of her Reward in bits from your hand: as for the rest of her Training, take the same course which I have directed in the manning and ordering of the Haggard-faulcon. But above all take pains to stay her, and by your utmost Art restrain her from dragging or carrying any thing from you, to which ill quality she is more inclined than any other Hawk whatever.

To conclude this Chapter, I come next to the Tu∣nisian-Faulcon, which is not much different in nature from the Lanner, yet somewhat less, but in Foot and Plume much alike. She hath a large round Head, and is more creese than the Lanner, and more heavy and sluggish in her flight.

She is called a Tunisian-faulcon, from Tunis the Me∣tropolis of Barbary, the Country where she usually makes her Eyrie.

They are excellent Hawks for the River, lying long upon the Wing, and will fly the Field also very well.

They naturally delight to seize upon the Hare, and will strike boldly at her. Much more might be said of her, which I here omit, she being a Hawk not very common in England.

Having cursorily discourst in as good a method as I could of the seven sorts of Faulcons, with their Manning, Reclaiming, Luring, Training, Staying, &c.

I shall proceed to give you an account of some other Hawks, which I propounded and promised in the be∣ginning of this Treatise: take them thus in order.