This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. OTHER PLIGHTS--THE JEREALCON--MERLINS--THE GOSHAWK-- THE SPARROWHAWK -- THE BATH -- IMPING -- COPING--THE BRAIL -- MOULT -- DISEASES -- HAGGARDS-- LOST HAWKS -- LIVE PIGEONS--CONCLUSION. There are of course a few flights with the peregrine besides those which I have named, but the falooner ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. OTHER PLIGHTS--THE JEREALCON--MERLINS--THE GOSHAWK-- THE SPARROWHAWK -- THE BATH -- IMPING -- COPING--THE BRAIL -- MOULT -- DISEASES -- HAGGARDS-- LOST HAWKS -- LIVE PIGEONS--CONCLUSION. There are of course a few flights with the peregrine besides those which I have named, but the falooner, knowing others, will easily manage them. Pheasants, for instance, may be taken with most falcons, if found far enough from covert; and woodcocks may be taken with either falcon or tiercel, if excellent hawks, on a moor, perhaps on the edge of a bank near a burn, where I have occasionally found them. It must be left to the falconer's judgment in such cases whether he flies from the air or from the fist: a hawk is of course in the best position when waiting on; and, if the quarry is well marked down, this is easily arranged. But woodcocks, as all sportsmen know, are not always easy to find, mark them as you will. With the exception of a very few words which I may have to say about haggards, I now with regret dismiss the peregrine, to make room for other hawks. My space is full short. Of the jerfalcon I know nothing from practice, and I shall not enter here into the question of a difference of species between the Iceland, Greenland, and Norway birds. I will only say that I believe in it, and that in very good oompany. I was determined not to write a line on natural history in what I intended for a purely practical treatise on falconry; and it will be found that I have hardly written half a dozen such lines. The jerfalcons are used for herons, grouse, rooks, haros, even for partridges, and they wait on well. They will take hares fairly, especially with the assistance of a rather slow and well-broken dog, just to keep the hare going; any...
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