[465] Vide page 126, note [544].
[466] Kachal charkas (or karkas), lit. “the scald-headed vulture.” The young of this species is brown and not white.
[467] Parānīdan, “to cause to fly.” The author always uses this word for showing a train to a hawk and then letting it fly. In the preliminary lesson or lessons, one or two flight-feathers would probably be tied together to make the train fly as slowly as possible, and a creance would be fastened to a leg. Vide note [414], page 97.
[468] Vide chapter XII.
[469] Qullāb or “hook” (for Ar. kullāb); the “talons” of old falconers.
[470] The “stalke” of old authors.
[471] After the first flight the hawk would be given only a beakful or two of meat.
[472] From the back she would get little more than a taste of warm blood.
[473] Dast-par. It must be recollected that sakers are not easily spoilt by being given numerous trains, as are peregrines.
[474] On page 168, chap. LII, it is stated that there are three feathers in each wing so named, and that it is the Kurds who call these feathers yār māliq. Vide also chap. LX.