48 PRACTICAL FALCONRY. 
Fractwres.—A broken leg or wing may be set. I should ask the 
family surgeon to help me. 
Parasites.—The flying tick, found sometimes on peregrines, and 
especially on merlins, will soon leave them. Lice come from such 
quarry as rooks. "They generally leave after a few baths; but you 
may have to blow sulphur under the feathers. The red mite is the 
worst of all, it burrows in the nares; but the hawks of a man who 
keeps them clean can hardly be troubled with it, unless by contagion. 
A decoction of tobacco and spirit should be applied with a camel’s 
hair pencil. 
Only two or three lines more, to supply omissions. If a haggard 
peregrine, or any passage peregrine, is sent you, the course is as 
follows (I copy it from a letter of Robert Barr’s) : “‘ When she has 
fed freely through the rufter hood” (a hood through which she 
can easily eat, and a little differing from the ordinary one), fit 
her with a hood proper, and keep her on the hand day and night” 
(people, of course, do this in turns), “unhooding her very seldom, 
and late at night, for two or three weeks. If the bird shows symp- 
toms of being tame, she may be put on a perch, but hooded very 
early each morning. She should be let pull through the hood as 
much and as long as possible. When she will feed unhooded, and is 
tame enough to take out of doors, tie her to a peg, and let her 
jump to your fist ; if she does this, get a small fowl (or if you don’t 
want her to fly at herons, a pigeon), and let her go to it when 
fastened near her ; take her off on a pulling (a fowl’s leg, &c.), carry 
her quietly into the house, and hood her in the dark. Repeat this 
until you can let her loose ; then give her all the flying and stooping 
at the lure you can, after this enter her to quarry,” &c. 
Lost hawks, if they are not found on the live hack near the house 
next morning, must be sought far and ‘near with lure and shout.* 
* Where they were lost if the first instance, as I have said before. 
