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INDEX 



Carelessness, 213 

 Carrying, 83, 151, 253 



,, or lifting, 32, 95, 132, 261 

 Cassian, of Rhodes, 233 

 Cast, 20, 145, 273 

 Casting a hawk, 20, 42, 227 

 Castings, 46, 77, 152, 189, 235 

 Cat, 283 

 Catarrh, 240 



Catherine II. of Russia, 3, 132 

 Champagne Club, 5 

 Check, 32, 267 

 Chilian falcon, 22 

 China, 2, 145 



Chinese falconers, 2, 7, 145 

 Churchmen as falconers, 3 

 Claws, 20, 242 

 Clean moulted, 250 

 Clubs for hawking, 4, 5, 144 

 Colour of hawks, 258 



,, jesses, 58, 66 

 "Comet," eyess falcon, loi 

 Condition, 77, 91, 132, 136, 142, 210, 



235, 252 

 Coping, 64, 152, 173 

 Corns, 233, 242 

 Costume, 84, 225 

 Country for hawking, 8, 31, lOi 

 Courage, 272, 274 

 Coursing, 108 

 Crabbe, Captain, 7 

 Crabbing, 93, 273 

 Cramp, 238 

 Crane, 18, 34 

 Craye, 242 



Creance, 89, 153, 200 

 Cries of falconers, no, 122, 126, 127 

 Croaks, 14, 237 

 Crow, 18 



Crutch for eagles, 36, 48 

 Cubebes, 241 

 Curlew, 147 

 Cutting down, 128 



Damp, 172, 238 



D'Arcussia, Charles, 3, 8, 16, 25, 35, 39, 



128, 275 

 Daring, 27, 130 

 Death cry, no, 127 

 Deck feathers, 19 

 Decline of falconry, 3, 4 

 Decoy hawk, 72, 218 

 Deplume, 19, 134, 202 

 Desert falcons, 23, 25 

 "Destiny," passage tiercel, 143 

 Dhuleep Singh, H.H. the Maharajah, 7, 



13. 257 



" Diamond," eyess jack merlin, 208, 209 



Diary, 58, 65, 191, 209 



Diet, 24, 58, 152, 160, 180, 203, 243 



Difficulties of hawking, 4, 8, 132 



Disclosing, 18 



Disposition of hawks, 55, 67, 171, 256, 



261 

 Distance covered in flights, 113, 138, 148 

 Docility of hawks, 84 

 Dogs, 84, 85, 121, 125, 163, 167, 281, 



283 

 Double flights, 113, 140, 143, 144, 145 

 Down-wind flights, 107, 136 

 "Drawn," 191, 251 

 Drooping wing, 232 

 Duck, 248 



,, -hawk, 45 



,, -hawking, 144 

 Dugmore, Captain, 14 



Eagles, 10, 35-39, 182, 186 



Eleonora falcon, 25 



Endue, 19 



" Enid," eyess goshawk, 158 



Enseam, 20 



Entering, 92-94 



"Eva," eyess merlin, 137, 141, 206, 211, 



280, 281 

 Exercise, 99, 132, 181 

 Eyess, 18, 55-69 

 Eyrie, 18 



" Faerie," eyess sparrow-hawk, 168 



Falcon, 9, 11 «, 17 



Falconer, 81, 170-211 



Falconets, 39 



Falling evil, 239 



Farmhouses, 216 



Fat hawks, 91, 185, 239 



Feak, 19 



Feathers, 19, 56, 58, 191, 225, 231, 244, 



252 

 Feeding hawks, 56, 57, 58, 75, 87, 89, 



179-191 

 Feet, 26, 257 

 Feilden's falcon, 39 

 Field-blocks, 48, 105, 193 



,, -glass, 66, 113 

 Filanders, 241 

 Fisher, Major C. Hawkins, 6, 148, 25S, 



276, 283 

 Fishing-rod trick, 135 

 Fist, hawks of the, 92, 150 

 Flags, 19 

 Flat wings, 259 

 Flemings of Barochan, 3 

 Flight of hawks, 65 236, 259 



