THE FALCONER: THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH FALCONERS' CLUB 1984.

1985 1st edition. Large 8vo stapled paperback (186 x 248mm). Pp67. B/w photographs and illustrations.

Contents include: Editorial; Club Personality; Regional Reports - Scottish; North Eastern; N.E. Meeting at Threepwood; Midland; Cotswold; Southern; Western; Judgement at Manchester Crown Court; General Articles - Problems with merlins by Paul Denton; Tracking in the tropics by Dr Nick Fox; Abnormalities in British falcons by John Cooper; Frustrations of a novice falconer by Bob Farmer; Introduction to grouse hawking by Simon Ball; Hawking in the Hebrides by Andrew Miller-Munday; The spar, the magpie and the fox by Michael Nicklinson; Flight of Icarus by Mark Richards; McKenzie's grouse by Croft Slater; Rook and gull hawking by Paul Gillot; November hawking by P. Coles; Scarlett 1977-1984; Farewell Coc by Ronnie Moore; Book reviews - Garden of Eagles; International Zoo Year Book; Dictionary of Birds; About the artists.