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EAPTOEES, OE BIEDS OF PEEY. 



treatment, rarely more, the bird becomes, to a certain extent, 

 docile. The falconer then accustoms it to take its food quietly ; 



Fig. 290. Bewits. 



this is presented in the hand, while at the same time a peculiar noise 

 is made, which it learns to recognise as a call. In the meantime it 

 is carried about in frequented places, 

 so as to familiarise it with strangers, 

 and also with horses and dogs, which 

 are to be at some future time its com- 

 panions in the chase. When an obsti- 

 nate bird is dealt with its appetite is 

 excited, so as to render it more de- 

 pendent; with this view it is made to 

 swallow small pellets of tow mixed up 

 with garlic and wormwood. These 

 pellets have the effect of increasing 



Fig. 291. Hood. 



Fig. 292. Dressed Falcon. 



its hunger ; and the pleasure which it afterwards experiences in 

 eating tends to attach it more closely to the individual who feeds it. 



