. The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri, a Persian treatise on falconry;. in ChapterYIII as inhabiting ruins and being useful for a preliminary flight fora sJulhni that is to be entered to stone-plover. Panjabi falconers call thespotted owlet {Athene Brama) chvgjid. This species is not uncommon inPersia, being often found in holes in garden walls. The flight is feebleand slow, and it is easily taken by any hawk. The flesh is palatable tohawks. TRAINTNfi THK SHAHIN 129 Huoil tlio liawk on tlie lure and tbetl liev. Now go and ])iill theowl out of its hiding [)lace ami put it in ynwr falconers bag for theevenin
. The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri, a Persian treatise on falconry;. in ChapterYIII as inhabiting ruins and being useful for a preliminary flight fora sJulhni that is to be entered to stone-plover. Panjabi falconers call thespotted owlet {Athene Brama) chvgjid. This species is not uncommon inPersia, being often found in holes in garden walls. The flight is feebleand slow, and it is easily taken by any hawk. The flesh is palatable tohawks. TRAINTNfi THK SHAHIN 129 Huoil tlio liawk on tlie lure and tbetl liev. Now go and ])iill theowl out of its hiding [)lace ami put it in ynwr falconers bag for theevening;-. In the evening—prtiNidinl your liawk lla^ not Ix^en giventoo nuicli 1ihkI iu the nioriiiii-—mount vour lituse and go out intothe open ])lain, to a place where there are neither holes nor tlu shdhln ; let her see the owl and then let the oavI it has ilown about twiiity yards, cast off the hawk. She iscertain to take it. Kill the owl and feed up tlu liawk. You mustnow llv and kill wiili her two or three f)f these XXII HEKON STRUCK DOWN BY IKKEGKINE (PHOTO TAKEN .TUST BEFOltE THE HKnoX TOUCHED THE ground) The next thing to do is to fly her at a stone-plover. You mustcast her oil with hor breast to the Avind, and then cut off the ploverso that it s(|uats on the If she takes it, feed her up onother foodj savintr the pluvcr alive for another day iu case of 1 C/iok/irrnj, T. Lane, in a note to Chui)ter x.\, Vol. Ill, of his incom-parable of the Arabian Xights, says that the stone-plover orkarauthi is a favourite cage-bird with the Turks and EgAptians. - Fas datvr-i chdkhruq hi-glr iu li-Mncdhad : the authors meaning isnot clear. 9 130 BAZ-NAMA-YT NASIRI accident, for yoii must not let your hawks success make you over-confident. If slie fail to take it, lure her and feed her. If you have a made hawk, it is better to unhood her at theplover first, to show the youngster the way. Here let me give you a word of caution. Sho
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