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the quarry, always strike with the feet, and more particularly with 

 the powerful hind talons. 



According to this Chinese author, the best hawks come from 

 the province of Liaotoung, and only the natives of Southern 

 China, he says, make use of eyesses. He adds that the birds 

 employed (Falcons and Goshawks) are flown chiefly at pheasants 

 and hares, although the Sparrow-hawk is used for taking quails. 



364. ANON. Ou TSA Tsou. 



Anon. The Five Miscellaneous Categories. 



The author of this work (No. 117 of Schlegel's Catalogue) 

 states that the Falcons from Liaotoung are the most highly 

 prized, and that those from China are inferior to those from the 

 Corea. He gives an outline of the Chinese method of training 

 hawks, which is commenced by first hooding the bird with a 

 hood of soft flax, and then starving it for a time. In ten days 

 the hood is removed and the wings are brailed. In six or seven 

 weeks the hawk is flown at midday (when all other birds are 

 supposed to be at rest), and, being unable on this account, as he 

 says, to find food, it will come down to a pheasant thrown out 

 as a lure. This method is not nearly so good as that adopted 

 by European falconers, and occupies twice as many weeks as 

 are necessary. It is from this work chiefly that the article on 

 Falconry in the " Chinese and Japanese Encyclopaedia," by 

 Simayosi Anko, 17 14 (No. 366), seems to have been compiled. 



For further information concerning the practice of Falconry 

 in China and Tartary, see the Travels of William de Rubruquis, 

 who was sent as Ambassador to different parts of the East, in 

 1253, by Louis IX., and who mentions, amongst other things 

 noted by him, the use of the halsband for Sparrow-hawks ; the 

 Travels of Marco Polo, who gives an account of Falconry as 

 practised, during the latter half of the thirteenth century, by 

 the Chinese Emperors of the Mongolian dynasty and successors 

 of Genghis Khan (Marsden's translation, 4to, London, 1818; 

 and Colonel Yule's edition, 2 vols. Svo, London, 1875); John 

 Bell (of Antermony), " Travels to Pekin," 2 vols. 4to, Glasgow, 

 1763; Strahlenberg {oJ>. at., cf. a?ifeii, '^. 191), who states that 



