Photo from Catholic Foreign ^Mission Society of America 



HUNTING WITH EAGLES IN CHINA 



Falconry, that sport now long extinct, was one of the joys of our mediaeval ancestors, 

 ivike pnntmg and the mariner's compass, which are comparatively modern in the West, 

 talconry has been known in China from time immemorial. In Europe the female of the 

 peregrme falcon— one of the smallest of eagles— was alone used in this sport; but in China 

 much larger birds are trained for the chase, birds far too large to sit on the hand, as the 

 peregrmes used to do wh ^n our forefathers followed the sport. 



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