FOOTNOTES:
[750] Payvand kardan, “‘to imp’ a broken feather; to graft a tree.”
[751] Lūla-payvand: I conclude this is the author’s meaning.
[752] On a first of October I saw a young passage-saker minus six of its tail-feathers: the clumsy hawk-catcher, in his eagerness, had stepped on the tail. Forty days later these tail-feathers were one-fourth part grown and the falcon was also coming well to the lure. In Falconry in the British Isles, by Freeman and Salvin, mention is made of a merlin’s tail-feather, which had dropped out, growing again.
[753] The flight-feather of a female peregrine penetrates the flesh for the distance of more than 1¼ inches.
[754] Miftāḥ, Ar., “a key, or any instrument that opens a door.”
[755] The hole in the flesh closes up and is very difficult to find.
[756] Pas-band; in chess, “a piece that guards another.”
[757] Vide “to mail,” page 59, note [247].
[758] Narm-parhā, “down.”