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 the bow-net, 259 ; training, 



260 ; breaking to the hood, 



261 ; introducing the lure, 



262 ; early essays in killing, 

 262 ; setting at pigeons, 263 ; 

 at wild game, 263 ; dogs in 

 aid, 263, 264, 266-268 ; 

 making-in to hawks, 264 ; 

 limits of date in killing, 264 ; 

 effects of hawking on game, 

 265 ; at grouse, 266 ; flushing 

 game with setters, 068 ; at 

 partridge, 268 ; Old Hawking 

 Club's records of game killed, 

 269, 270 ; putting the hawk 

 up beforehand, 270 ; wild- 

 duck sport, 271 ; falcon at 

 woodcock, 272 ; snipe, phea- 

 sant, and blackgame, 272 ; 

 hares, 279 ; magpie hawking, 

 274-276 ; superiority of the 

 passage hawk to the eyess, 

 277 ; its temper, 277 ; where 

 and how to catch wild falcons, 

 280-286 ; handling them after 

 capture, 286 ; coaxing them 

 to eat, 287 ; entering to the 

 lure, 288-290 ; entering to 

 the quarry, 290 ; heron hawk- 

 ing, 290 ; at Didlington and 

 Loo, 291 ; method of con- 

 ducting the sport, 292, 293 ; 

 kite hawking, 294 ; rook 

 hawking, 294 ; the best flights 

 at rooks, 295 ; hawks slipped 

 dead up wind at rooks, 295 ; 

 distastefulness of the rook 

 quarry to the hawk, 296 ; 

 how Bois-le-Duc was induced 

 to fly at rooks, 296 ; eyesses 

 and tiercels at rooks, 296 ; 

 instructions for conducting 

 this sport, 298; description 



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of a flight at rooks, 299-301 ; 

 sea-gull hawking, 302 ; dis- 

 taste of hawks for the flesh of 

 this quarry, 303 ; difficulty of 

 taking lapwing or green 

 plover, 303 ; Norfolk plover, 

 stone curlew, or thicknee, 

 303 ; John Barr's report of 

 the marked excellence of 

 passage hawks at grouse, 304 ; 

 haggards, 304 ; early fitness 

 of passage hawks after catch - 

 i n g> 35 J differences in size, 

 colour and appearance be- 

 tween peregrines, 305 ; re- 

 covering lost hawks, 306-309 ; 

 varieties of gerfalcons, 310- 

 317 ; their liability to asthma, 

 311 ; merlins, 317-322 ; mer- 

 lins at larks, 319-321 ; at 

 pigeons, 321, 322 ; the hobby, 

 322, 323 ; hobbies mobbing 

 off tiercels, 325 ; sacres, 324, 

 325 ; lanners, 325 ; Barbary 

 falcons, 325 ; the shahin, 325 ; 

 the lugger, 325 ; passage gos- 

 hawks, 328 ; training of 

 short-winged hawks, 329-332 ; 

 entering to quarry, 332 ; at 

 rabbits, 332 ; at hares, 333 ; 

 various quarry killed by gos- 

 hawks, 334 ; their determina- 

 tion, 335 ; antagonism of gos- 

 hawks to other hawks, 336, 

 337 ; the sparrow-hawk, 338- 

 342 ; its liability to fits, 341 j 

 hawking on racecourses, 345 ; 

 celebrated Scotch falconers, 

 343-347 J famous Dutch fal- 

 coners, 348-350 ; English 

 falconers, 350-352 ; clubs, 

 352-366 ; private establish- 

 ments, 364-366 ; the manage- 



