. Coursing and falconry. Coursing; Falconry. GAME HAWKING 265 not the effect of banishing the game flown at from its haunts, A single afternoon at the sport will prove to any man of ex- perience that it is not likely to have this effect. Immediately a covey is flushed, the hawk being overhead, its members hurry with the utmost speed they can command to the nearest covert. One bird only is killed, and the rest find a refuge within a few hundred yards of the place where they were. found. Directly they discover that they are not pursued they will be out on the feed again; for there is nothing unn
. Coursing and falconry. Coursing; Falconry. GAME HAWKING 265 not the effect of banishing the game flown at from its haunts, A single afternoon at the sport will prove to any man of ex- perience that it is not likely to have this effect. Immediately a covey is flushed, the hawk being overhead, its members hurry with the utmost speed they can command to the nearest covert. One bird only is killed, and the rest find a refuge within a few hundred yards of the place where they were. found. Directly they discover that they are not pursued they will be out on the feed again; for there is nothing unnatural or unusual to them in being frightened by a hawk. Probably on any ground open enough for hawking, they see a wild one every other day, and merely consider the trained bird to be one of their natural enemies, which they readily avoid by their natural powers and 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 Cox, Harding Edward de Fonblanque, 1854-; Lascelles, Gerald William. Falconry; Richardson, Charles, ed. London and Bombay, Longmans, Green, and Co.
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