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PART v.— PRACTICAL FALCONRY. 



Introductory — The peregrine — Procuring falcons — The eyas falcon 

 — Season for taking eyas'^es — Cramps — Watching the eyrie and 

 taking the eyases, etc. — Travelling by rail, etc. — Rearing young 

 hawks — Hunger traces — Flying at hack — Care in feeding — ■ 

 ' Carrying ' to be checked — Places suitable for flying at hack — 

 Notices — Use of the bow-net — Jessing and belling — Short-winged 

 hawks — Hacking merlins and hobbies — Daily bath — Taking up 

 from hack — In the mews — Intelligence of falcons — Colour of 

 young birds — Training — Jesses and varvels — Swivels — Bells — ■ 

 Pewits — Blocks — Hawks to be kept apart — Bow-perch — The hood 

 — To hood a hawk — The brail — The lure — Taking the soar — 

 Hawking-glove — Meat-box — Carrying hawks — Reclaiming hawks 

 — Varieties of hawks — ^Reclaiming haggards — Falconer's calls — - 

 Entering — Health and condition — Bathing — Time for flying 

 hawks — Hawks to be flown after casting — Affection of hawks for 

 their master — Food — Shot birds not to be given to merlins — 

 Woodcock hawking — Mr. Sinclair's falcon — Use of merlins — 

 Heron-hawking — Hawking with merlins — The hobby — ^The gyr- 

 falcon — The saker — The goshawk — Performances of a female 

 goshawk — Hare and rabbit hawking — The sparrow-hawk — Throw- 

 ing a hawk — Blackbird hawking — Hawks on a journey — Imping — 

 Coping — Diseases of hawks — Moulting — Conditioning after moult- 

 ing — Restoring to health by hacking — Cramp — Lockjaw — ^Con- 

 sumption — Apoplexy — Croaks — Laxatives — Frounce — Inflamed 

 crop — Corns — Blain — Fractures — Parasites — Feathers — -Glossary 

 of terms. 



I REGRET that want of space must somewhat prohibit 

 my enlarging- as fully as I could have desired upon the 

 science of falconry. But in a work such as the present 

 it is obviously impossible to do more than to endeavour 

 to lay before the reader further instructions than are a 



