TIRING. 
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power of these birds, that none, however large, could 
escape from their talons.* * * § 
Burton, in his “ Anatomy of Melancholy,” -f* quoting 
from Sir Antony Shirley’s “Travels,” says : “The Musco- 
vian Emperours reclaim eagles, to let fly at hindes, foxes, 
&c., and such a one was sent for a present to Queen 
Elizabeth.” 
A traveller to the Putrid Sea, in 1819, wrote: “ Wolves 
are very common on these steppes ; and they are so bold 
that they sometimes attack travellers. We passed by a 
large one, lying on the ground with an eagle, which had 
probably attacked him, by his side. Its talons were nearly 
buried in his back ; in the struggle both had died.” J 
Owing to the great difficulty in training them, as well 
as to the difficulty in obtaining them, eagles have rarely 
been trained to the chase in England. Some years since, 
Captain Green, of Buckden, in Huntingdonshire, had a 
fine golden eagle, which he had taught to take hares and 
rabbits ; § and this species has been found to be more 
tractable than any other. 
Whether Shakespeare was aware of the use of 
trained eagles or not, we cannot say, but he has in 
* See Pennant’s “Arctic Zoology,” ii. p. 195; Sir J. Malcolm’s “Sketches of 
Persia; ” Johnston’s “Sketches of Indian Field Sports; ” Atkinson’s “Travels in 
Oriental and .Western Siberia,” and Burton’s “Falconry in the Valley of the 
Indus.” 
f Folio, 1676. Part ii. p. 169. 
X “ Memoirs of Stephen Grellet,” i. p. 459. 
§ See “ The Naturalist” for May, 1837. 
