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sand J whicli should be watered every morning. Even when the 

 hawks have been at hack some weeks, they will lie on the cool 

 damp sand duzing the heat of the day. They must not be fitted 

 with jesses, or the kites and crows will bully them ; nor with bells, 

 else the attention of loafers will be drawn to them. If several 

 birds are hacked together, they are kept amused, and are, I think, 

 less likely to stray far and kill for themselves. 



If nestlings are brought able to fly, the best plan is to fit 

 them with jesses and leashes and to g'et them first accustomed, 

 not only to the basket-lid but to the compound generally. They 

 should then be accustomed to the roof of the house and the view 

 from there. A block may be fixed in the roof and one or two 

 dead pigeons given tliem at the block, the feathers being allowed 

 to remain. Early one morning, while part of a third or fourth 

 pigeon is being eaten, the jesses should secretly be cut, and the 

 hawk left to its own devices. "When it returns to be fed it should 

 be carried quietly, while feeding, to the basket-lid, and left to 

 finish its meal there. 



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