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Iceland Falcon,' prized by ancient falcooers, fcut condemned as 

 sulky and delicate by modern ones. The resemblance appears to 

 extend to the temper as well. Possibly Jer-falcons require the 

 special carriage and handling so necessary for most cliarcjhs. 

 ,\ P^^^^ tte peregrine, the ohargh, by being given many 

 trains, does not easily become what Punjabi falconers call ba*uH- 

 band or ba^uli-khur, i.e., it does not easily contract tte vice of fly- 

 ing only at bagged quarry. It is not nearly as fast as a pere- 

 gi-ine, but makes up by wind and pei-seveiunce for what it lacks 

 m pace, and it usually flies its fastest. At ringing-up it is not 

 to be surpassed. Its stoop, when driven home, is deadly, but is 

 uot so sudden and unexpected as a peregrine's. After a miss, it is 

 better at recovering and shooting up with the impetus of its fall, 

 it will stoop at a kite many times and miss, whereas a pere<^rine 

 will often ' bind ' to a kite at the first or second stoop. 



Flown at kite in cantonments a good saker will single out one 

 bird, probably a young bird, and stick to it, stooping and missing 

 repeatedly, but not changing to another nearer to or below her, and 

 this no matter if the air be black mth kites. 



is atate^d totr^I^ir '^'^'.'^'t ^1t' l''^ '^''^^^ °^ ^ f«">*l« I^^'and Falcon 

 S saidlo be 20li^^^^ '' '"^'^^'^- ^He le.gth of a male 



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