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and entrails, or has a prowling jackal assisted at the feast ? Any- 

 way she will not he empty for two days and will require a good purge 

 to bring her back to flying condition. Being only freshly gorged a 

 feeling of satiety may not have set in, and so she may, perhaps, be 

 caught in a do-cfaza with a live fowl ; but whatever device be used 

 she will be trioked by it only once. If frightened off the quarry at 

 evening, when only partially gorged, she may take stand in a tree 

 and roost there all night in the hope of returning to her half- 

 finished meal in the morning. If so, you must be ready on the 

 spot before the false dawn. In any case, delay is fatal; for should 

 a wheeling kite catch her view the spirit of the jungle will once 

 more enter into her and she will disappear. 



Charghs require to be entered to one, or to each particular 



heron 

 charfiA 



quarry — houbaia excepted, 

 will fly at comn 

 will not do so. 



Some cJiarcfks do not seem to understand that any bird except 

 the houbara is fit for food. One of the best houbara-hawks I 

 ever owned would not ' bind ' to or plume a dead heron, nor could it 

 be induced to even notice the existence of a turkey, not even when 

 placed on the turkey's back. Unhooded at a stone-plover, it left 

 the fist to start in pursuit, but at once returned on recognising 

 the quarry ; still half an hour later it killed three houbara The 

 same hawk was afterwards entered to and flown at hare, but when 

 oftered a small white rabbit she declined to look at it. However, 

 such fastidiousness is not universal. One ' haggard ' I had, was duly 

 entered to houbara, given a winged night-heron, and then straight- 

 way flown at a wild night-heron, which it killed. She was next 

 given, one morning, a large white egret, dead, and then flown in the 

 evemng at a wild one : she stooped at it three or four times and 

 brought It to the ground, and had she not been harassed by a busy 

 pair of wild lagars would probably have killed. 



rn f T^ ' ^aggards ' there are that will not kill fowls, but will 

 stiil kill wild houbara m first-class style. 



Choose a chargh with large nostrils and large eyes. Long birds 

 are good stoopers : some of the best kite-hawks I have seen have 

 peen long. Indians consider that narrow flight-feathers are an 

 mdicatioa of speed. A concave outline of the back, when the bird 



ve^ 



profile 



Good birds should 



the brighter and closer the plumage the better. 



new, 'carriage 



great 



haggard 



retur 



' V,.Tf' y^T^.^i^^er tuan she was in the morning. She may not 

 wprp vl? ""^f '^^ ^' ^ prisoner. The falconer must, Is it 



Iw nnLn^''"'^/ r Tf ^^- ^^ °^^«* constantly, as he strolls 



moment .bpi^""^ I'^f^ ^"'■' ^^^ ^^"^^^d ^^^^^^ ^ehood her the 

 moment she shows b^ her expression or attitude that she intends 

 to Dait. He must nnf nnlvr 'Ur.^ji^ j _i i -. 



tinually 



turning his hand and slightly altering its 



