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thus confined to flying from one block or rest to another. 

 To this change of position he is accustomed by present- 

 ing him with food on the opposite side to that on which 

 lie may be resting, until he becomes completely habitu- 

 ated to this method of exercising himself. A saloon is 

 now formed in the midst of a copse of boughs, in the 

 centre of which a log or rest stands, and without the 

 saloon another is placed at a hundred paces' distance, the 

 intermediate space, on which the owl is placed, being 

 cleared away. It is necessary that the top and sides of 

 this saloon should be covered with boughs in such a 

 manner that, altliough the outside is distinctly seen, 

 there is no opening that will admit any bird to enter 

 with unfolded wings. Nets are placed against the toja 

 and sides, leaving open that part only opposite the rest- 

 ing-place of the owl. The fowler, now concealing himself, 

 keeps watch, and when he observes the owl lower his 

 head, and turn it to one side, he becomes certain that 

 some bird of prey is in the air. The hawk now marking 

 the owl for his own, follows him into his retreat, when, 

 becoming hampered in the meshes of the net, he is 

 easily secured." 



TechxNical Terms tsed by Falconers. 



The redundancy of sporting terms in days of old 

 was very great, and the use of certain technicalities 

 was essential to the character of every true sportsman. 

 The parts of the body are thus named by early fal- 

 coners : — 



In the head, the upper mandible was called the beak ; 



the lower, the chops ; coping, was paring both beak and 



talons ; the yellow bare spot at the base of the bill, 



which naturalists term cere, the hawker knew as sear 



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