a 2 ojf Summary of Falconry. 



Hawk may not fee at all, but as the Thread (hall (lacken, (he (hall be able to fee back- 

 wards only, which is the caufe that the Thread is put nearer the Beak. 



When your Eyas is well won to the Hood and to the Fift, let her kill fmall Birds 

 thereon 5 then call her two or three days or longer,till (he will corae far off} then take 

 a live Pigeon tied by the foot with a Creance, and ftir it till your Hawk will bate at it 

 and feife it, but not far off, that you may quickly help her at the firft, left the Pige- 

 on ftrugglingwith her (he prove too ftrong, and fo difcourage your young Hawk: 

 Then let her plume and foot her, and feed her thereupon, whittling the while, that 

 (he may know it another time : Then hood her,and let her plume and tire a little. 



You may ufe her to Trains of Chicken and Quail : And when Ihe will feife readily 

 by often Training, ride out with her in the morning into the Fields, where calling 

 your Sparrow-hawk to your Fift, and giving her a bit or two, go with your Spaniels 

 to feek fome Beavy of young Quails, advancing your Fift aloft, that your Hawk may 

 fee them when they fpring, flying her at advantage : If (he kill, reward her, &c .if (he 

 mifs, ferveher with a Train of a Quail. 



Let your Dogs hunt on your right hard when they range, but efpecially when they 

 queji and call, to the end you may the better caft off your Hawk. When your Hawk 

 is throughly entred and well nouzled, you may then hold your hand low, for (he will 

 now bate at the Whurr : But whatever you do, have a quick eye and a good regard to 

 the Spaniels, not coveting to be too near them, but a little above them, that you may 

 let your Hawk fly coafting at the advantage when the Game fpringeth. 



§. II. 



Of the Brancher, Soar, Mewed, and Haggard Sparrow-hawk- 



HAvingfpokenof the firft kind of Sparrow-hawks, viz. the Eyas, the other four in 

 the title of this Chapter muftcorfequently be difcourfed of. 



I (hall give you but few inftrudions, for in effect the fame precepts that ferve for 

 the Eyas will ferve alio for the Brancher, Soar,Mew'd, and Haggard Hawks} only this, 

 thelefour laft requirenotlo much pains to be taken to make them know their Game as 

 the Eyas, becauie they have been accuftomed to prey for themfelves. 



Above all things the Falconer muft take them off from their ill cuftom of carrying* 

 and that may be done by ierving them with great Trains, whereby they will learn to 

 abide on the Quarry. 



Be very mindful of coying them as much as yotfcan, for they will remember a kind- 

 ness or injury better than any other Hawk. 



If the Hawk be newly taken, and will not feed, then rub her Feet with warm flefh, 

 whiftling to her, and fometimes putting the flelh unto her Beak : If (he will not yet 

 feed, rub her Feet with a live Bird 5 if at the crying of the Bird the Hawk feife it with 

 her Feet, it is a fign (he will feed 5 then tear off the Skin and Feathers of the Birds 

 Breaft, and put the Bird to her Beak, and (he will eat. 



When (he will feed upon your whiftle and chirp, then hood her with aRufter- 

 hood, and feed her betimes in the morning j and when (he hath endewed, give her a 

 Beaching in the day-time, and every time you hood her give her a bit or two; at 

 evening give her theBrains of a Hen for her fupper : and in every thing elfe order thefe 

 Hawks aforefaid as you do the Falcon and the reft. 



§. III. 



How to mew Sparrow-Hawks- 



QOmt ufe to put their Sparrow-Hawk into the Mew as loon as they leave flying 

 O her, cutting off both her Bewets, Lines, and knots of her Jeffes, and Co leave 

 themin the Mew till they are clean mewed. 



If you will have your Sparrow-Hawk to fly at Quail, Partridge, or Pheafant Powt, 

 then you muft draw her in the beginning of April, and bear her on the Fift till (he be 

 cleanand throughly enfeamed. 



Others keep their Sparrow-Hawks on the Pearch until March, and then throw 

 them into tl*e Mew, peppering them for Lice if they have any. Her Mew (hould be 

 a Chamber aloft from the ground, eight or nine foot long, and about fix foot broad : 

 Her Windows and Pear ches muft be like the GoQiawks. 



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