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CHAP. XLIII. 



MEinOD OF TAKrXG FALCONS. — HAWKS. — ETESSES. — MODES OF 

 CAPirRE. — IN ICELAND. — TECHNICAL TERMS, — TRAINING OF 

 HAWKS. — QUALITIES OF THE FALCONER. — TRAINING RULES. — 

 HOW TO FEED THE HAWK. — TRAINING THE HAGGARD. — THE 



LIVING QUARRY. THE WORKING HAWK. SHORT WINGED 



HAAVKS. — EXTRACT FROM BERT. — HERON HAWKING. — KITE AND 

 PHEASANT HAWKING. — WATERFOWL HAATKING. — PARTRIDGE 

 HAWKING. — A PLEA FOR THE PEREGRINE. 



Hawks may be obtained as eyesses from the nest, or 

 they may be caught just after leaving the nest, when 

 able to fly only from bough to bough. They are also 

 entrapped or netted after they are full grown, either as 

 permanent residents, or more generally during their 

 migrations as passage hawks. 



The t akin a and reaeing of Eyesses. 



The eyess must be sought after in such places as 

 accord with the habits of nidification of the parent birds ; 

 and as the mature falcons and hawks generally return to 

 the same spot to breed, the seeker may be pretty sure of 

 finding them. jNIost of the falcons build in cliffs ; hawks 

 also sometimes make their nests in cliffs, others in trees, 

 some on the ground, and not unfrequently they make 

 use of the old nest of some other bird, as the magpie or 

 crow, for the puipose. 



Of unfledged eyesses it must be remarked that, when 

 discovered, the prudence of either taking them at once, 



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