FOOTNOTES:
[273] Layl, “The Hobby.”
[274] A hobby is too cowardly to be caught by a common quail as a bait. I have frequently tried and failed, but on substituting a sparrow have succeeded instantly. Lieut.-Colonel E. Delmé Radcliffe in his pamphlet on Falconry states that the European Hobby is sometimes trained in India and flown at the Hoopoe and the male at the Diongo-Shrike or “King-crow.” I have, however, never met with any Panjabī falconer who had heard of one being trained with success.
[275] For Shamīrānāt, vide note [169], page 40. Mazenderan is a province on the south coast of the Caspian.
[276] In the desert, the bag͟hs or “gardens” are the only places where there are tall trees.
[277] The hobby is not trained in the Panjab. In Albin’s Natural History of Birds (pub. 1738) it is stated that “The Fowlers, to catch these Hawks, take a Lark and having blinded her and fastened Lime-twigs to her legs, let her fly where they see the Hobby is, which striking at the Lark is entangled with the Lime-twigs.”
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HOBBY WITH SEELED EYES
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HOBBY WITH SEELED EYES