CHAPTER XXIVTHE SANGAK[278]
This“falcon” closely resembles the Indian Sparrow-Hawk,[279]but the young bird is smaller and darker in colouration. Also it has not the dark stripe under the chin.[280]The only difference between the two is that theSangakis black-eyed while thePīqūis yellow-eyed.[281]
In the jungle it preys chiefly on locusts and frogs, but occasionally kills a small wounded or diseased bird. It haunts “gardens,” and, like the hobby, nests in trees. However, it is a bird impotent and unvalued, except for its tail, which can be used for “imping”[282]that of apīqū.
The “intermewed” bird and the nestling are identical in plumage, and cannot be distinguished from each other.
FOOTNOTES:[278]I am unable to identify this hawk.[279]Pīqūorpīg͟hū, theshikraof India.[280]Usually present in the young as well as in the oldshikra.[281]Arzaq-chashm, properly “blue-eyed.” Young shikras have sometimes bluish grey eyes.[282]“Imp to” is to repair broken flight- or tail-feathers by sewing in, “grafting,” etc.: for methodsvideBadminton Library.
[278]I am unable to identify this hawk.
[278]I am unable to identify this hawk.
[279]Pīqūorpīg͟hū, theshikraof India.
[279]Pīqūorpīg͟hū, theshikraof India.
[280]Usually present in the young as well as in the oldshikra.
[280]Usually present in the young as well as in the oldshikra.
[281]Arzaq-chashm, properly “blue-eyed.” Young shikras have sometimes bluish grey eyes.
[281]Arzaq-chashm, properly “blue-eyed.” Young shikras have sometimes bluish grey eyes.
[282]“Imp to” is to repair broken flight- or tail-feathers by sewing in, “grafting,” etc.: for methodsvideBadminton Library.
[282]“Imp to” is to repair broken flight- or tail-feathers by sewing in, “grafting,” etc.: for methodsvideBadminton Library.