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tion in Falconry, and who trained the Grey Shrike, or Butcher- 

 bird {Fie-grikhe of the French), to take sparrows and other small 

 birds, an example afterwards followed by Louis XIII. of France, 

 in the Jardin du Louvre {cf. Arcussia, No. 153, p. 170, ed. 

 1644). The difference in size between the sexes of hawks is noted 

 (vol. xliv. p. 5), the male being called Seo (the little) and the 

 female Tai (the great). 



A young hawk is termed Waka taka ; a partially moulted 

 hawk, Kata kaveri (in Chinese, P'hien P'hien) ; a hawk in its 

 third year, Moro kaveri (in Chinese, Tsai F'fiien), that is, a hawk 

 that has moulted twice. One taken from the nest and reared in 

 the house is Sou taka, that is, nestling hawk, or eyess ; one 

 taken after it has left the nest and is able to shift for itself, 

 Akake, that is, taken with a net ; an adult hawk, or haggard, is 

 Nozare, that is, not easily tamed ; a Jerfalcon, Sird taka (in 

 Chinese, Fe yng or Sid pe yng), that is, white hawk, or snow- 

 white hawk. 



Then follows an account of the mode in which hawks are 

 trained— by being carried on the fist for three weeks, fed often, 

 but very little at a time, and then flown in a creance. The 

 Japanese falconers, when holloaing to a hawk, cry, 0-ou 0-ou ! 



When a hawk is put up to moult the jesses are removed, and 

 it is cast loose into the mew and there fed a-t discretion. A 

 broken tail feather is repaired by joining a new one to it with a 

 kind of varnish made from a tree of which the scientific name is 

 Rhus vernix. From this it would appear that a means of 

 repairing broken feathers, known to English falconers as 

 " imping," is practised by the Japanese, although they make use 

 of strong varnish instead of an imping needle. 



Schlegel states that in Japan the hawk is carried on the left 

 hand, while in China it is carried on the right {op. cit. p. 68). 



367. KONOSITA YOSITOMO. Dsou Kai-Bou 

 Y6 Ben-Ryak. Yedo. 1747. 



KONOSITA YOSITOMO. CONCISE DESCRIPTION OF 



ALL THAT IS NECESSARY FOR A SoLDiER. With Illus- 

 trations. Yedo. 1747. 8 vols. 8vo. 



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