40 PRACTICAL FALCONRY. 
CHAPTER VI. 
OTHER FLIGHTS—THE JERFALCON—MERLINS—THE GOSHAWK— 
THE SPARROWHAWK — THE BATH-——~IMPING — COPING — THE 
BRAIL — MOULT — DISEASES — HAGGARDS— LOST HAWKS—LIVE 
PIGEONS—CONCLUSION. 
THERE are of course a few flights with the peregrine besides those 
which I have named, but the falconer, knowing others, will easily 
manage them. Pheasants, for instance, may be taken with most 
falcons, if found far enough from covert; and woodcocks may be 
taken with either falcon or tiercel, if excellent hawks, on a 
moor, perhaps on the edge ofa bank near a burn, where I have ot 
casionally found them. It must be left to the falconer’s judgment 
in such cases whether he flies from the air or from the fist: a hawk 
is of course in the best position when waiting on; and, if the quarry 
is well marked down, this is easily arranged. But woodcocks, as 
all sportsmen know, are not always easy to find, mark them as you 
will. 
With the exception of a very few words which I may have to say 
about haggards, I now with regret dismiss the peregrine, to make 
room for other hawks. My space is full short. 
Of the jerfalcon I know nothing from practice, and I shall not 
enter here into the question of a difference of species between the 
Iceland, Greenland, and Norway birds. I will only say that I 
believe in it, and that in very good company. I was determined 
not to write a line on natural history in what I intended for a purely 
practical treatise on falconry; and it will be found that I have 
hardly written half a dozen such lines. The jerfalcons are used for 
herons, grouse, rooks, hares, even for partridges, and they wait 
