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the shelter their own instinct would teach them to provide for 

 themselves. 



The author of ' Falconry : its History, Claims, &c.' recom- 

 mends the use of a lean-to shed against a wall, closed at the 

 ends but open in front, as a sheltered and convenient place to 



Young goshawk on Captain Salvin's bow-perch 



keep hawks. From lack of opportunity we have never our- 

 selves tried this form of an open-air mews ; but we can well 

 believe that it would answer extremely well, both in summer 

 and winter, for eyess hawks, though for passage hawks during the 

 earlier stages of their training it is obviously unfitted. 



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