. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. Photo from Catholic Foreign Mis^i HUNTING WITH EAGLES IN CHINA Falconry, that sport now long extinct, was one of the joys of our tnediKval ancestors. Like printing and the mariner's cotnpass, which are comparatively modern in the West, falconry has been known in China from time immemorial. In Europe the female of the peregrine falcon—one of the smallest of eagles—was alone used in this sport; but in China much larger birds are trained for the chase, birds far too large to sit on the hand, as the peregrines used to do when our f

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. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. Photo from Catholic Foreign Mis^i HUNTING WITH EAGLES IN CHINA Falconry, that sport now long extinct, was one of the joys of our tnediKval ancestors. Like printing and the mariner's cotnpass, which are comparatively modern in the West, falconry has been known in China from time immemorial. In Europe the female of the peregrine falcon—one of the smallest of eagles—was alone used in this sport; but in China much larger birds are trained for the chase, birds far too large to sit on the hand, as the peregrines used to do when our forefathers followed the sport. 716. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Washington, D. C. : National Geographic Society

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