The ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in the county of Warwick Esq, fellow of the Royal Society in three books : wherein all the birds hitherto known, being reduced into a method sutable to their natures, are accurately described : the descriptions illustrated by most elegant figures, nearly resembling the live birds, engraven in LXXVII copper plates : translated into English, and enlarged with many additions throughout the whole work : to which are added, Three considerable discourses, I. of the art of fowling, with a description of several nets in two large copper plates, II. of the ordering of singing birds, III. of falconry / by John Ray ...

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Title: The ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in the county of Warwick Esq, fellow of the Royal Society in three books : wherein all the birds hitherto known, being reduced into a method sutable to their natures, are accurately described : the descriptions illustrated by most elegant figures, nearly resembling the live birds, engraven in LXXVII copper plates : translated into English, and enlarged with many additions throughout the whole work : to which are added, Three considerable discourses, I. of the art of fowling, with a description of several nets in two large copper plates, II. of the ordering of singing birds, III. of falconry / by John Ray ...
Author: Ray, John, 1627-1705.
Publication: London :: Printed by A.C. for John Martyn ...,; 1678.
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Subject terms: Birds -- Early works to 1800.; Fowling -- Early works to 1800.; Falconry -- Early works to 1800.
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§. VI. * The Haggard Falcon; Falco gibbosus.

IT is so called because by reason of the shortness of the Neck, the Head scarce ap∣pears above the points of the shoulders, or Wings withdrawn and clapped to the sides of the Back; so that it seems to have a bunch on its back. The Germans call it Ein Hagerfalck, or rather Hogerfalck, whence the Latine name Gibbosus: For the Germans call a bunch Hoger. Our English Writers of Falconry, as far as I understand them, call the Peregrine Falcon the Haggard Falcon, using those names promiscuously: Wherefore we shall not enlarge further concerning this Hawk; especially seeing what Aldrovandus hath of it, is all taken out of Albertus Magnus; on whose credit we do not much rely.