CONTENTS
PERSIAN AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION
On the Short-winged Hawks used in Falconry
The Goshawks
The Sparrow-hawk
ThePīqūSparrow-hawk
TheShikra
The Serpent Eagle
The Eagle Owl
Other Species of Owls
The Harriers
The Lammergeyer or Bearded Vulture
The Osprey
The Eagles and Buzzards
Kites and Harriers
The Vultures
The Raven
TheShunqāror Jerfalcon
TheShāhīn
The Peregrine (Baḥrī)
The Saker Falcon (F. Cherrug)
The Eyess Saker Falcon
Strange Arab Devices for Catching the Passage Saker
The Merlin
The Hobby
TheSangak
The Kestril
The Shrike
Miscellaneous Notes
Method of Snaring a Wild Goshawk with the Aid of a Lamp
Training theT̤arlānor Passage Goshawk
“Reclaiming” the Passage Saker
Anecdotes of a Baghdad Falconer
Training the Passage Saker to Gazelle
Training the Eyess Saker to Eagles
Eyess Saker and Gazelle
Another Method of Training the Eyess and Passage Sakers to Gazelle
Training the “Shāhīn”
Training the Passage Saker to Common Heron
Training the Passage Saker to Common Crane
On Management During the Moult
Remedies for Slow Moulting
On Feeding on Jerboas During the Moult
On Feeling the Pulse, and on the Signs of Health
On Diseases of the Head and Eyes
On Diseases of the Mouth
Diseases of the Nose
On Diseases of the Ear
On Epilepsy
On Palpitation
The Sickness calledKaraj, which is Costiveness
Hectic Fever or Phthisis
On Canker of the Feathers
Lice
Worms
Heat Stroke
Palsy, etc.
Diseases of the Feet: the “Pinne” in the Feet
On Paralysis of a Toe
Feathers Plucked Out by the Root
Operation of Opening the Stomach
On the Number of Feathers in the Wing and Tail
Counsels and Admonitions
Accidental Immersion during Winter
Expedient if Meat Fail
Restoration after Drowning
Sage Advice
Cure for the Vice of “Soaring”
On Branding the Nostrils before Setting Down to Moult
A Hawk not to be Fed when “Blown”
Miscellaneous Notes
Hunting and Hawking Scene (from a painting in an ancient Persian MS.)
Facsimile of a page of the Teheran Lithographed Edition
Persian Carpet depicting Hawking Scene
From an old Persian painting, Indian, probably of the Mug͟hal Period
From a painting in an ancient Persian MS. written in India
Persian Carpet depicting the Court of a Sikh Mahārājā
Intermewed Peregrine
Young Peregrine (Indian Hood)
Young Passage Saker (dark variety)
Young Passage Saker (dark variety)
Hobby with Seeled Eyes
Hobby with Seeled Eyes
Hobby with Seeled Eyes
Persian Falconer with Intermewed Goshawk (from a photograph by a Persian)
Intermewed Goshawk on Eastern Padded Perch (from a Persian painting)
Arab Falconer with Young Saker on Padded and Spiked Perch
Young Gazelle
Young Passage Saker (light variety) on Hubara
Young Passage Saker (dark variety) on Hubara
Hubara sunning itself
Stone-Plover
Heron Struck Down by Peregrine (photo taken just before the Heron touched the ground)
Young Peregrine (English Block and Indian Hood)
Intermewed Peregrines (from a photograph by Lieut.-Col. S. Biddulph)
Hunting and Hawking Scene