Vol. Ill, ^"0. 2.] ' Note on the Gammon Baven. 117 



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combine in tlie desert to attack a hare, they kill it with ease, 

 while a single one will kill a middle-sized owl. # # # * *^ j^g 



grasp is very powerful. It is lured, as falcons are lured, for it 

 is long-winded and will pursue its prey for a whole day till 

 successful. So strong is it in the baijk that it can tread the 

 female while both are flying. It should not be lured to meat, but 

 to the skin of a gazelle or of ahare as gazelle-sakers are lured, 

 or failing such skins to a lure of crane's ^ wings." 



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1 ij^jr 1 pi'ij^^j^t " a crane^ " perhaps the Demoiselle Crane, called in 



Jf ^o^ 



India \JJ qarqara. Classically the Common Crane is ^^j0 ghumu 



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