FOOTNOTES:
[721] K͟hazīna.
[722] Vide Latham’s The Falcon’s Lure and Cure, Book I, Part II, Chap. xlii, for a receipt: “To kill the ranckness and itching that sometimes will be in Hawkes bloody feathers, which is the cause she pulls them forth in that estate.” The disease referred to is not uncommon in cage birds that are carelessly tended, but I have never met with it in trained hawks in India.
CHAPTER LIV
HEAT-STROKE[723]
If your hawk mope, and the feathers of her head stand on end, and her mutes, too, be red as though there were drops of blood in them, it is a sign that she is suffering from heat-stroke. Treatment: mix a little saffron and sugar-candy and give it to her at meals, concealed in a fold of meat: the quantity of the dose depends on the size and the constitution of the hawk. Feed her on cooling meats, such as cockerels, jerboa-rats, and tortoises. With every meal give her cucumber juice with juice of ispaghul (as previously mentioned under chālma[724]), so that her liver may be cooled thereby.