262 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [May, 1908. 
Hither the ‘haggard’ or the young gs i = can be 
trained to both large and small quarry, but the former is harder 
to keep in condition and seldom loses her wikion anpletely $.4., 
she is inclined to become wild when on the wing. There is no 
was “ ped kind, young or old, that cannot be thoroughly tamed 
t quarry of some sort, but the question is, is she worth 
the while ak Some hawks, on the other hand, seem to train them- 
Baron cinal should be trained and entered to wild quarry as 
em. Ifa 
ee flown at wild quarry, abe i may us quite spoilt,' and it may be 
no easy matter to get her to kill even teal. She will have lost 
her decision and will stoop too late. When the first hunger is on 
i 
able to them, but because they soon learn that the heron is a 
e sure 
the shoulder, a fact wall depicted 1 in one of eae pictures. A 
regrine can with ease be fully trained to fly ont of the hood (but 
not to ‘ wait on’ ) in three weeks. On a4th November two pere- 
grines were brought to me with sealed eyes? The first killed a 
h m i i 
a flying train of night-heron, sid one of houbara.? The second, 
trained in the same way, killed on the 21st. Both hawks killed 
heron* and honbara well, On the other hand unduly hurrying 
the early training to ‘the lure is fatal, for, if a hawk is put on the 
wing before she is fit and keen, she will fly and stoop in a slack 
manner: this will become a confirmed habit and it wili then be 
ra ce to give her the requisite amount of exercise at a dead 
t is, of course, understood that, if peregrines are a ene 
. Qe ordinary dead lure, they must be given nothing on it but 
fresh palatable birds. “Mi tchell, probably writing from hos 
fe) a ' ke. 
flight-feathers are too stiff and bri ttle for such a flight. The 
Lagar, an Indian falcon that metas resembles the peregrine in 

are educated. A beginner, however, will learn a good deal by weighing his 
awks frequently. To catch, train, and enter hawks to pers: is no difficult 
2 Even sitting on a perch with ‘ sealed’ eyes has a certain taming effect, 
and so too the ‘carriage’ on the jour oe Hawks that have been caught 
some days att at least, = nt to feed sg 
3 She weighed then, as stated above, 
4 It is very rare t that t two falcons are Pony at a heron in India, 
