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broken to the hood, trained to the ee and entered to quarry by 
ive trains, you should tie her tail on both sides to her flight- 
feathers | and go cia the jungle and fly her at a rat, or a bandi- 
coot, or else at a -dog. If she take the rat, so much the 
better ; if not, ie will settle at the entrance of its hole. Fly 
her several times at a rat, so that she may acquire the habit of 
settling on the ground. After that undo ri flight-feathers, but 
let the tail agg tied very loosely. Next fly her at a bagged 
hare, but the mouth of the hare should be tearaei up so that 
it may not snioe ‘the hawk.? The reason for train the hawk 
to ‘fly at the bolt’ is to teach her the habit of es Tae on the 
ground without hesitation. When the hawk has been trained 
as above, she would be flown at bolt, at duck. The following is 
the method: First two ducks should be tied together, fluttered 
before the hawk’s eyes ata distance of ten yards, and then re- 
leased so that she may leave the fist and take them, ter this, 
ra should be released for the hawk by an assistant in am- 
fed on e kill and the distance at the trains are re 
leased being increased. She should afterwards be flown at 
duck in water, so that she may either take one in the water or 
else seize one me ear it to land. min falconer should then 
deprive the hawk of the quarry, but fly her at once at a duck 
in the air; then when the hawk takes a duck up in the air she 
should be fed upon it. The goshawk is a very intelligent bird ; 
she will never forget a lesson, but she will learn of her own 
accord, benefitting by her mistakes. 
“Your hawk should now be flown at a duck in the george: 
manner : The falconer should draw near to a pond and put 
sh 
e : 
wait till the duck re-settle. After that he should fly his hawk 
at those ducks that have been affected by the drum.* Now the 

is Pars Riza, son of Muhammad Yisuf, and that it was composed in 
th gn of Au ipso 1088 A.H., and was called Dastar® ’s-Sayd. The 
cana s ween is no n. 
Mea no 2 clear. ‘The author probably means that the outside 
tail- eri peat be bound vee r so that the hawk sige spre ve 
her tail fully (this checks any inclination to ‘soar ’)— — so that one o 
two flight- caine should be tied together (as in the ery pigeons) to 
prevent her feeling strong on ie wing. By p ipnonitaseene tka first flight- 
a pice is esa shah- 
2In ard of a ase injuring any hawk with its teeth. A Saker 
ase will pees at a hare and knock it about, not binding till the hare is 
d. 
3 LS >) eer Te) 
+ B29 Unb tabl-khurda; presumably this is the meaning of the 
agerse 
I have been told (but cannot vouch fr the accuracy tt the nicole 
that the ‘bird. catchers of Patna, 
when snaring duck at night, beat n to 
— the duck to lie close. It is stated that the duck, incacctitan a ‘te er- 
storm to be imminent, do not take wing & 
