GLOSSARY. 22% 



treatment, see Salvin and Brodrick, " Falconry in the British Isles," 

 2nd edit. p. 142. 



Full-summed, adj.^ when a hawk has got all her new feathers after 

 moulting. See Summed. 



Galbanum, j., a gum resin derived from an umbelliferous plant, Ferula 

 galbaniflua ; usually obtained by making an incision in the stalks, 

 when a milk-white fluid exudes in tear-like drops, which, after a few 

 hours' exposure to light and air, c'nange to a yellow colour, and 

 become dry and hard enough to gather. It is regarded as an internal 

 remedy in chronic mucous catarrh and rheumatism, and is applied 

 externally in the form of galbanum plaister as a mild stimulant to 

 relieve tumours and chronic pulmonary affections. 



\Get in, v., to reach the hawk as soon as she has killed. 



Gleam, the substance thrown up after casting gorge. 



Gorge, s., the crop ; Gorged, adj., full fed. 



GURGITING, choking with too large a mouthful. ^ 



Hack, s., the place where the hawk's meat is laid. — Nicholas Cox, " The 

 Gentleman's Recreation,'' 1674. 



Hack, flying at ; Fr. voler au taquet ; the state of liberty in which eyess 

 falcons are kept for a few weeks before being trained ; coming in daily 

 to feed on the hack-board where their meat is cut up for them. Sir 

 John Sebright employs the term : " Observations upon Hawking," 

 1826, p. 8. John Dawson Downes, a contemporary falconer of 

 experience, to whom he submitted the MS. of this work for criticism 

 prior to publication, invariably wrote at heck, and asserted that the 

 term is not applicable " until after the birds have been taken up and 

 trained." See The Zoologist, 1890, p. 418. 



Hack-bells, large heavy bells put on hawks to hinder them from preying 

 for themselves whilst " flying at hack." 



\.Haggard, s., a hawk that has been caught after assuming its adult 

 plumage, that is, after having moulted in a wild state. Prof. Skeat 

 states (" Etym. Diet.'') that the original sense is hving in a hedge 

 (hag), hence wild ; though Peregrine Falcons do not live in hedges. 

 D'Arcussia derives the word from the Hebrew agar, which signifies 

 stranger, and which, in this sense, is synonymous with Passage-hawk. 

 See Eyess. The unknown author of the " Menagier de Paris," 1393, 

 has " Esprevier hagart est celluy qui est de mue de haye," ed. Pichon 

 1846, vol. ii. p. 317. In a foot-note to this remark Baron Pichon 

 observes: "D'Arcussia (pp.8 et 36) et Saincte Aulaire (p. 12) 

 discnt aussi que le faucon hagart (ou mud de champs) est celui qui a 



