GOO 



RAPTOEES, OR BIRDS OF PREY. 



The ancient falconers of the East were not in the habit of 

 making use of the Eagle ; its want of docility and its great 

 weight rendered it but little adapted for this exercise. Thus 



Fig. 2S0. — Goliiea Eagles {AqtiiUi c/iri/siictvs) 



tliey rather unceremoniously class the Eagle among the ignoble 

 birds. 



The Tartars, however, are in the habit of using- an Eag-le 

 indigenous to Central Asia to assist in taking the hare, fox, 

 antelope, and wolf. As this bird is weighty, they do not hold it 



