The Quarterly Review, Volume 139William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1875 |
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Page 173
... gyrfalcon is here indicated , yet the term ' white hawk ' was frequently applied by old writers on falconry to a peregrine falcon that had moulted and acquired the adult plumage , which is of a much lighter colour than that of the ...
... gyrfalcon is here indicated , yet the term ' white hawk ' was frequently applied by old writers on falconry to a peregrine falcon that had moulted and acquired the adult plumage , which is of a much lighter colour than that of the ...
Page 174
... gyrfalcon . Stephen de Dammartin in one hawk and one gyrfalcon . Walter Knot in three hawks and three gyrfalcons , & c.'t We may conclude that the sport of falconry , with little interruption , maintained its popularity in the British ...
... gyrfalcon . Stephen de Dammartin in one hawk and one gyrfalcon . Walter Knot in three hawks and three gyrfalcons , & c.'t We may conclude that the sport of falconry , with little interruption , maintained its popularity in the British ...
Page 180
... Gyrfalcon , and we doing the same with ours , they rise with such rapidity , that in a short time we can see they have attained as great a height as the heron . Still working upwards they at last get above him , and begin to strike him ...
... Gyrfalcon , and we doing the same with ours , they rise with such rapidity , that in a short time we can see they have attained as great a height as the heron . Still working upwards they at last get above him , and begin to strike him ...
Page 182
... gyrfalcon . Turberville , ‡ in describing the sport in Russia during the fifteenth century , says : • The Raven truly is a monstrous strong flight , by meane he is of so great force and might of wing , and withall doth use to make so ...
... gyrfalcon . Turberville , ‡ in describing the sport in Russia during the fifteenth century , says : • The Raven truly is a monstrous strong flight , by meane he is of so great force and might of wing , and withall doth use to make so ...
Page 185
... gyrfalcon , the peregrine falcon , the lanner , the saker , the Barbary falcon , the merlin , the goshawk , and the sparrowhawk ; whether the object of pursuit be heron , rook , grouse , partridge , woodcock , snipe , wild - duck , or ...
... gyrfalcon , the peregrine falcon , the lanner , the saker , the Barbary falcon , the merlin , the goshawk , and the sparrowhawk ; whether the object of pursuit be heron , rook , grouse , partridge , woodcock , snipe , wild - duck , or ...
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