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XXV. A Japanese Falconer. From the " Ehon 

 Taka Kagami," or Mirror of Falconry. 



The merits of the work from which this plate has been re- 

 produced in facsimile (No. 371) have been already noticed on 

 p. 212. This figure has been selected in preference to many 

 others in order to show the form of the Japanese hood {zukin.)^ 

 glove (yugaki), jesses {ashikazva, i.e., leg leathers), creance {Oki- 

 nawa), and frisfrass {buchi), which is a stick of wistaria, with 

 the end teased out like a Japanese tooth-brush, used to cleanse 

 the beaks of goshawks and falcons. 



XXVI. Portrait of a Trained Falcon. 



The figure of a hooded Tiercel on the glove, which appears in 

 the vignette on the title-page, and was drawn and engraved for 

 this work by Mr. G. E. Lodge, being on rather too small a scale 

 to show all the accessones, it has been thought desirable to 

 give a larger figure of a trained Falcon, unhooded, from an 

 excellent photograph recently taken by Lieut.-Col. H. Watson. 

 Here is the hood : — 



