Both the doves and the falcons had an allusion to the arms of the Walladmors: and for some reason, in the present year, Sir Morgan had chosen himself to add the four falcons and their bearers to the Bishop's doves.
Witsen speaks of an island in the Sea of Tartary, from which falcons were got, apparently referring to a Chinese map as his authority; but I know nothing more of it.
Parez is famous for its falcons still, and so are the districts of Aktúr and Sirján.
NOTE 2]] And when you have travelled forty days over this great plain you come to the ocean, at the place where the mountains are in which the Peregrine falcons have their nests.
And in those mountains it is so cold that you find neither man or woman, nor beast nor bird, except one kind of bird called Barguerlac, on which the falcons feed.
NOTE 4] In the mountains of Kerman are found the best falcons in the world.
NOTE 4]] The mountains of this country also supply Saker falcons of excellent flight, and plenty of Lanners likewise.
Wakhán "are only noted for producing a breed of hawks or falcons which the hardy Wâkhânis manage to catch among the cliffs.
A like description is given by Odoric of the mode in which a successor of Kúblái travelled between Cambaluc and Shangtu, with his falcons also in the chamber beside him.
Thereafter the herald paced slowly round the lists, and behind him rode Sir Gilles, his blazon of the three stooping falcons plain for all men to see, on gleaming shield and surcoat.
From the first commencement of their attack, the two falcons had followed a separate course of action.
The Marutas are also called Gridhras or vultures (falcons according to Max Mueller.
A puff of smoke floated up from the deck of the Tiger, and a ball from one of her two tiny falcons passed through the stranger's rigging.
Two falcons apiece and a handful of muskets, and they go out against a man-of-war!
They have been introduced because several species of Harier are to be found in Palestine, where they take, among the plains and lowlands, the place which is occupied by the other hawks and falcons among the rocks.
In the illustration, a pair of Lanner Falconsare depicted as pursuing some of the rock-pigeons which abound in Palestine, the attitudes of both birds being taken from life.
It is easily trained, and, although in the old hawking days it was considered a bird which a noble could not carry, it can be trained to chase the smaller birds as successfully as the falcons can be taught to pursue the heron.
Recent upturns in populations of peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus) and pelicans (Pelecanus sp.
The Duke of St. Albans is still hereditary grand falconer, and presents the king with a cast (or pair) of falcons on the day of his coronation.
The largest European falconsare the jerfalcon or gyrfalcon proper (Falco gyrfalco), a native of the Scandinavian Peninsula, and the Iceland falcon (F.
These three Arctic falconsare often referred to the special genus Hierofalco.
The falcons proper (genus Falco), for strength, symmetry, and powers of flight are the most perfectly developed of the feathered race.
Mr. Jenner Weir has known the same thing with the peregrine-falcons at Beachy Head.
Just now, predicting an awful fate For some wretched bird; and I foresee Falcons and snares awaiting thee.
Falcons are swift; the Eagle's proud and bold; By Ravens sorrow is foretold; The Crow announces miseries to come; All are content if singing or if dumb.
Had you seen at the friendly hearth As many Falconsof good birth As I've seen Capons put to roast, You'd not reproach me with vain boast.
But the falcons are not nesting now, and how can I go to Freydis, that woman of strange deeds?
It will be months before the falcons are nesting again.
Have I ever been a worldly prelate, whose cellars are full of wines, whose castles abound with plate and falcons and chargers?
And although his nests were usually on loftier crags than theirs, they were quite neighborly, especially as they did not chase the same prey, the Cormorants drawing theirs from the sea, and the Falcons finding theirs in the air.
Whereas all history is full of the exploits of my ancestors, and monarchs and nobles spent immense fortunes in buying and keeping Falcons that hunted birds grandly.
White light filled the city; the sea seemed to burn in the sun, and in the silence was heard only the calling of falcons circling above the house.
It was noticed that falcons began to circle above Cinna's house, which in Egypt was a herald of death.
It so happened that soon after his arrival Marcel the falconer, Eleanor and Roger, and the squires, Ralph Courtenay and John Lake, were going to try the young falcons on the border of the marsh.
The two birds of prey which the men brought were moreover not the type of hawk used especially to hunt pigeons, but young falcons or tercels.
Just now the training of young falcons was absorbing all of his leisure time.
Now, more than ever, I do not like to have the falcons chase these dear, gentle little animals.
Hamid showed Rashid how he could make his two handsome falcons come and sit on his wrist and obey him.
I will show you my falcons if you are not too tired," said Hamid, anxious to amuse his little friend.
I have brought a little friend with me who will hunt with the falcons some day.
This man was a high authority, and he assured me that many well-trained falconswould decline to strike a bird when flying across water, as they thoroughly understood the danger.
Illustration: ] The use of falcons and Hawks in the chase dates far back in the history of the Old World.
They were formerly tamed in England for the purpose of catching fish, as falcons and hawks were for chasing the fleet inhabitants of the air.
Two falcons are often released, one shortly after the other.
Should the quarry escape, a hare's skin is thrown down, by which means the falcons are secured, and made ready for a further flight.
He flew high amid the clouds, the falcons ever following.
But the falcons gave battle to the gull and drove him thence.
I ought not to omit mentioning the falcons of these parts, which are large, and of a generous kind, and exercise a most severe tyranny over the river and land birds.
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