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To make the passage hawks to the lure, it is enough 

 if they will fly to it, when swung round at a distance, 

 as it would not only be difficult, but it would also be 

 unnecessary for the purpose to which they are applied 

 to teach them to wait on. What has been said on the 

 luring of eyesses will also apply here, but this is quite 

 certain, that a more rigid training is required for the 

 haggard ; and the more northward the habitation of the 

 falcon is, the more strict must every part of the dis- 

 cipline be, and for the ger-falcon most of all. Little has 

 been said about practising the passage hawks to the 

 hand ; but, as already observed, more close training is 

 undoubtedly requisite for the haggard. Though techni- 

 cally they are not hawks of the fist, but hawks of the 

 lure, they are to be familiarised to the hand almost as 

 much as the others, and therefore must be taught to 

 leap from the stand on the ground to the hand as soon 

 as presented, where they must receive the same attentions 

 and the same rewards as the hawks of the fist. 



Training the passage hawks and northern falcons 

 to fly at their game, follows the exercising just de- 

 scribed. Initiatory lessons now follow at fl}ing at 

 living quarry. A pigeon is generally the first game 

 they fly at, one or more of these birds having already 

 been given to be raked from the hand. Proceed, there- 

 fore, to throw one up to her in a creance, and if she 

 shows herself ready at this, shorten the flight of another, 

 either by taking out two quill feathers from each wing, 

 or by clipping off a portion of the whole ; and having 

 done this, throw it off before her, she being now wholly 

 at large. The game that the falcon in training is in- 

 tended to fly at should be made particularly familiar to 

 her ; which is best done by using a representation of it 

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