INDEX 



Acari or mites, 233, 241 

 Accidents, 225-233 

 Accipiter badius, 35 



„ nisus, 34 

 African falconers, 167 



,, lanner, 25 



„ merlin, 28 

 Ague, 238 



Air, taking the, 107, 139 

 Alexander, Prince, of the Netherlands, 



144, 276 

 Aloes, 81, 237, 240, 241, 252 

 Alphanet, 25 



Anderson, John, falconer, 4, 5 

 Anne, Major, 7 

 Antelope, 37 

 Antennaire, 18 

 Antiquity of hawking, 1 

 Apoplexy, 32, 239 

 Apostume, 239 



Arcussia, Charles d'. See D'Arcussia 

 Arm, 19 



Asiatic falconers, 2, 7, 36, 103, 234 

 ' ' Aurora," eyess falcon, 259 



Bagged quarry, 29, 93, 135, 154, 199 



Bags made by falconers, 129, 140, 146, 

 I5 8 . '59, 211, 232 



Ballantine, Peter, falconer, 5 



Barachin, M., 7, 38 



Barbary, falcon and tiercel, 21, 115 



Barr, John, Robert, and William, fal- 

 coners, 5, 16, 101, 146, 248, 257 



Bath, 50, 64, 175. 250, 273 



Bating, 76, 77, 82, 152, 154, 273 



Beak, 233 



Beam feathers, 250 



Beaters, 175, 211 



Beaufort, Cardinal, 3 



Bee Cottage, 279 



Bell, 41, 201 



Belvallette, M., 7, 11 



Bent feathers, 227 



Berkute, 37 



Berners, Dame Juliana, 7 



„ Lord, 4 

 Bert, 7, 243 



Besra sparrow-hawk, 35 

 Bewit, 42 



Biddulph, Capt. S., 7 

 Binding, 19, 30, 127 

 Birding, 162, 166 

 Birds used in hawking, 9-32 

 Bittern, 18 



Blackbird, 162-165, 168 

 Black-game, 116, 125, 129 

 " Black Lady," eyess falcon, 283 

 Black-legged falconet, 39 

 Black shaheen, 20 

 Blain, 242 



"Blanche," eyess sparrow-hawk, 168 

 Blocking, 20 

 Blocks, 47, 65 

 Blome, 131 

 Blue hawks, 19 

 Bone, fracture of, 332 

 Bonelli's eagle, 36-38 

 Bonham, Colonel, 5 

 Bots, falconer, 5, 144 n. 

 Bow-net, 69, 73 



„ -perch, 47, 48 

 Bowse, 19 

 Box-cadge, 52 

 Boynton, Sir H., 7, 159 

 Brace of hood, 49 

 Brail, 49, 60, 61, 254 

 Brancher, 18, 55 

 Brodrick, Mr. W., 6, 101 

 Brook, hawking at the, 144 

 Brooksbank, Colonel, 7, 129, 146 

 Brown, SirT., 148 

 Bruise, 233, 243 



" Buccaneer," peregrine tiercel, 146 

 Bustard, 37 

 Button of leash, 44 



Cadge, cadger, 51, 192 

 Calling off, 90, 177 



