^z <iA Summary of Falconry. 



Cafting of Plumage is to be obferved as the former Calling : That is, if in the 

 morning you find them round, and not [linking, it is a good fign:, but if long, flimy 

 with indigefted flelh fticking to the fame, and having an ill fent, it is- very bad. ' Here 

 note, that by how much the more fweetor ftinking the Cafting is, by fo much is the 

 Hawk in a better or worfe condition. 



Mervts mud be obferved as well as Callings, in this manner : If the Mewt be white 

 not very thick nor clear, having no black fpot in it, or but very little, it is a fign of 

 the healthy conftitution of the Hawk $ but if it be white and very thick in the mid- 

 dle, though it doth not import ficknefs, yet it fheweth her to be too grofs and over- 

 full of greafe, which you mull: remedy by giving her moift meats, as the Heart of a 

 Calf or Lamb,^. and for two mornings after give her fome Sugar-Candy, or elfethe 

 Gut of a Chicken well waiht, and filled with Oyl-Olive : Either of thefe will fcour 

 her, and make her to Jlife freely. 



It is a very bad and mortal fign to fee your Hawks Mewt full of variety of co- 

 lours .• therefore you mull: fpeedily prevent enfuing milchiefs by giving her Mummy 

 purified and beaten to powder, wrapping it in Cotton. 



If the Mewt be more yellow than white, then doth fhe abound with Choler pro- 

 ceeding from great Flights in hot weather, alfo from much Bating. This is remedied 

 by wafhing her meat in Buglofs, Endive, Borage, and fuch like told waters,wringing 

 the faid meat after you have fo waftied it. 



The blacky Mewt is a molt deadly fign, and if it continue four days (he will peck 

 over the Pearch and die. If fhe mewt io but once, there is no great danger, for it 

 proceeds either from the Bloud or Guts of the Fowl in tiring, or elfe from being 

 gorged with filthy meats : In this cafe give her good warm meat and Cotton-calling, 

 with the powder of Cloves, Nutmeg, and Ginger, or Mummy alone. 



If the Mew the green, it is a bad fign, and denotes her troubled with aninfe&ed 

 and corrupt Liver, Or with fome Apofteme, unlefs fhe be a Rammage Hawk, and 

 then that fign holds not good. Her Cure is, by feeding her with meat powdered 

 with Mummy , if fhe will not take it with her Food, then give it her in a Scouring or 

 Cafting: But if this ill-coloured Mewting continue ftill, then give her a Scouring of 

 Agarick, and after that another of Incenfe pulverized to comfort her. 



The dark fanguine Mewt with a black in it is the molt deadly fign of all, and difc 

 fers but little, if anything, from the former blackJSAewt. A Hawk mewting after this 

 manner is irrecoverable, and therefore itisneedlefs to prefcribe a Cure. 



Laftly, The grey Mewt like four milk is a mortal token, yet curable,as fhall be fhewn 

 hereafter. 



Thus you fee how requifite it is for a Falconer to obferve diligently every morning 

 his Hawks Callings and Mewtings, that knowing thereby their Maladies, he may time- 

 ly find out their Remedies. Let us now proceed to their particular Difeales. 



Chap. II. 

 'Of the Catarad. 



THe CataraB in the Eyes of a Hawk is a Malady not eafily removed, and fome- 

 times incurable, when it is too thick, and of a long continuance. 

 It proceedeth from grofs Humours in the Head, which frequently do not 

 only dim, but extinguifti the Sight: and fometimes the Hood is the caufe of this 

 mifchief. 



The Cure muft be effected by Scouring her two or three days with Aloes or Aga- 

 rick : Then take the powder of wafht Aloes finely beaten onefcruple,and two fcruples 

 of Sugar-Candy - mingle thefe together,and with a quill blow it into your Hawks eye 

 afflicted as aforefaid three or four times a day. This is the gentleft and moft fovereign 

 medicine of any yet I have tried. But if this will not do, you muft ufe ftronger 

 medicines, as the juyce of Celandine roots, bathing her Eyes often with warm Rofe- 

 water wherein hath been boyled the feeds of Fengreek. 



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