. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. 436 THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE. ^"^^777 From a drawing by I/Ouis Agassiz Fuertes UPPER FIGURE, FlFlvD CADGE ; LOWER FIGURE, SCREEN CADGE, EOR HOUSING FALCONS The carrier of the cadge was usually a country boy—a tenant of the owner of the hawks. From "cadger" came "codger," a countryman, and doubtless cad and caddie, both typical Scottish derivatives only slightly different in their present-day applications. falcon-catcher first traps his shrike and attaches him to a perch on a little sod mound wit
. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. 436 THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE. ^"^^777 From a drawing by I/Ouis Agassiz Fuertes UPPER FIGURE, FlFlvD CADGE ; LOWER FIGURE, SCREEN CADGE, EOR HOUSING FALCONS The carrier of the cadge was usually a country boy—a tenant of the owner of the hawks. From "cadger" came "codger," a countryman, and doubtless cad and caddie, both typical Scottish derivatives only slightly different in their present-day applications. falcon-catcher first traps his shrike and attaches him to a perch on a little sod mound with a retreat into which it may dive to safety when the hawk comes near. The shrike sits quietly on its perch until it sees a falcon in the distance, when it begins to chatter and scold, getting more and more excited as the falcon ap- proaches, and finally actually "pointing," thus giving the trapper ample time to have everything in readiness. At the first sign, the trapper retreats into his hut and closes everything except the little peep-window and begins work- ing his tied pigeon and the decoy hawk up and down on the elevated line, to at- tract the wild falcon's eye. The actual trap consists of a bow-net set some fifty yards from the hut. Through a ringed peg driven in the mid- dle of the net passes the tether to the bait, a live pigeon which is in retreat in a box a few feet away. When the falcon has come within a hundred yards of the trap the "lure" pigeon is dragged out, flapping its wings. The hawk prepares to stoop. At this moment the "lure" pigeon is dropped and dives to shelter and the "bait" pigeon is drawn out of its box into view. When the hawk has struck, the victim and victor are drawn gently into the exact center of the net, which is then sprung by means of a line from the hut. The falconer loses no time now. He runs out to the trap, fastens jesses to the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page image
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