eoo 



EAPTOEES, OE BIEDS OF PEEY. 



The ancient falconers of the East were not in the habit of 

 making use of the Eagle ; its want of docility and its great 

 weight rendered it but little adapted for this exercise. Thus 



Fig. 280. — Golden Eagles [Aquila ckrysaetos). 



they rather unceremoniously class the Eagle among the ignoble 

 birds. 



The Tartars, however, are in the habit of using an Eagle 

 indigenous to Central Asia to assist in taking the hare, fox, 

 antelope, and wolf. As this bird is weighty, they do not hold it 



