[22] From the Shāh-Nāma.
[23] The Shāh, and in fact all kings, are styled “The Shadow of God.”
[24] A.D. 1868.
[25] The allusion is to some story of the ant presenting Solomon with the leg of a locust.
[26] The book, however, contains only two numbered bābs; the first, pages 1 to 26 (1st Edition) on “The species of Hunting-birds;” and the second, the remaining 157 pages of the book on other subjects. The 2nd bāb, however, commences with: “On the black-eyed birds of prey that have at various times of my life come into my possession and which....”
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |||
| TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION | [xi] | ||
PERSIAN AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION | [xvii] | ||
| [PART I] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| THE YELLOW-EYED BIRDS OF PREY | |||
| CHAP. | |||
| I. | On the Short-winged Hawks used in Falconry | [1] | |
| II. | The Goshawks | [3] | |
| III. | The Sparrow-hawk | [11] | |
| IV. | The Pīqū Sparrow-hawk | [15] | |
| V. | The Shikra | [17] | |
| VI. | The Serpent Eagle | [17] | |
| VII. | The Eagle Owl | [18] | |
| VIII. | Other Species of Owls | [22] | |
| IX. | The Harriers | [25] | |
| X. | The Lammergeyer or Bearded Vulture | [27] | |
| XI. | The Osprey | [29] | |
| [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] | |
Part I
THE YELLOW-EYED BIRDS OF PREY
CHAPTER I
ON THE SHORT-WINGED HAWKS USED IN FALCONRY
The Birds of Prey are divided into two great divisions, the “Yellow-eyed” and the “Black-eyed,” these being again sub-divided into numerous species.