Chapter II: Part II: The Dark-Eyed Birds of Prey

XII. THE EAGLES AND BUZZARDS 30

XIII. KITES AND HARRIERS 33

XIV. THE VULTURES 34

XV. THE RAVEN 35

XVI. THE _SHUNQĀR_ OR JERFALCON 36

XVII. THE _SHĀHĪN_ 42

XVIII. THE PEREGRINE (_BAḤRĪ_) 47

XIX. THE SAKER FALCON (_F. Cherrug_) 49

XX. THE EYESS SAKER FALCON 55

XXI. STRANGE ARAB DEVICES FOR CATCHING THE PASSAGE SAKER 57

XXII. THE MERLIN 61

XXIII. THE HOBBY 65

XXIV. THE _SANGAK_ 68

XXV. THE KESTRIL 68

XXVI. THE SHRIKE 72

XXVII. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 73

XXVIII. METHOD OF SNARING A WILD GOSHAWK WITH THE AID OF A LAMP 75

XXIX. TRAINING THE _T̤ARLĀN_ OR PASSAGE GOSHAWK 78

XXX. “RECLAIMING” THE PASSAGE SAKER 94

XXXI. ANECDOTES OF A BAGHDAD FALCONER 98

XXXII. TRAINING THE PASSAGE SAKER TO GAZELLE 99

XXXIII. TRAINING THE EYESS SAKER TO EAGLES 110

XXXIV. EYESS SAKER AND GAZELLE 115

XXXV. ANOTHER METHOD OF TRAINING THE EYESS AND PASSAGE SAKERS TO
GAZELLE 124

XXXVI. TRAINING THE “SHĀHĪN” 125

XXXVII. TRAINING THE PASSAGE SAKER TO COMMON HERON 136

XXXVIII. TRAINING THE PASSAGE SAKER TO COMMON CRANE 140

XXXIX. ON MANAGEMENT DURING THE MOULT 148

XL. REMEDIES FOR SLOW MOULTING 151

XLI. ON FEEDING ON JERBOAS DURING THE MOULT 152

XLII. ON FEELING THE PULSE, AND ON THE SIGNS OF HEALTH 153

XLIII. ON DISEASES OF THE HEAD AND EYES 154

XLIV. ON DISEASES OF THE MOUTH 155

XLV. DISEASES OF THE NOSE 157

XLVI. ON DISEASES OF THE EAR 157

XLVII. ON EPILEPSY 158

XLVIII. ON PALPITATION 160

XLIX. THE SICKNESS CALLED _KARAJ_, WHICH IS COSTIVENESS 162

L. HECTIC FEVER OR PHTHISIS 163

LI. ON CANKER OF THE FEATHERS 166

LII. LICE 168

LIII. WORMS 169

LIV. HEAT STROKE 170

LV. PALSY, ETC. 170

LVI. DISEASES OF THE FEET: THE “PINNE” IN THE FEET 172

LVII. ON PARALYSIS OF A TOE 176

LVIII. FEATHERS PLUCKED OUT BY THE ROOT 176

LIX. OPERATION OF OPENING THE STOMACH 179

LX. ON THE NUMBER OF FEATHERS IN THE WING AND TAIL 181

LXI. COUNSELS AND ADMONITIONS 182

LXII. ACCIDENTAL IMMERSION DURING WINTER 183

LXIII. EXPEDIENT IF MEAT FAIL 184

LXIV. RESTORATION AFTER DROWNING 184

LXV. SAGE ADVICE 185

LXVI. CURE FOR THE VICE OF “SOARING” 186

LXVII. ON BRANDING THE NOSTRILS BEFORE SETTING DOWN TO MOULT 189

LXVIII. A HAWK NOT TO BE FED WHEN “BLOWN” 190

LXIX. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 192

ILLUSTRATIONS

I. Hunting and Hawking Scene (from a painting in an ancient
Persian MS.) _Frontispiece_

II. Facsimile of a page of the Teheran Lithographed Edition xvi

III. Persian Carpet depicting Hawking Scene 2

IV. From an old Persian painting, Indian, probably of the Mug͟hal
Period 5

V. From a painting in an ancient Persian MS. written in India 7

VI. Persian Carpet depicting the Court of a Sikh Mahārājā 9

VII. Intermewed Peregrine 43

VIII. Young Peregrine (Indian Hood) 45

IX. Young Passage Saker (dark variety) 51

X. Young Passage Saker (dark variety) 53

XI. Hobby with Seeled Eyes 64

XII. Hobby with Seeled Eyes 66

XIII. Hobby with Seeled Eyes 67

XIV. Persian Falconer with Intermewed Goshawk (from a photograph
by a Persian) 77

XV. Intermewed Goshawk on Eastern Padded Perch (from a Persian
painting) 79

XVI. Arab Falconer with Young Saker on Padded and Spiked Perch 95

XVII. Young Gazelle 101

XVIII. Young Passage Saker (light variety) on Hubara 117

XIX. Young Passage Saker (dark variety) on Hubara 119

XX. Hubara sunning itself 121

XXI. Stone-Plover 127

XXII. Heron Struck Down by Peregrine (photo taken just before
the Heron touched the ground) 129

XXIII. Young Peregrine (English Block and Indian Hood) 131

XXIV. Intermewed Peregrines (from a photograph by Lieut.-Col. S.
Biddulph) 133

XXV. Hunting and Hawking Scene 195