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| TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION | xi | ||
PERSIAN AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION |
xvii | ||
| PART I | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| THE YELLOW-EYED BIRDS OF PREY | |||
| CHAP. | |||
| I. | On the Short-winged Hawks used in Falconry |
1 | |
| II. | The Goshawks |
3 | |
| III. | The Sparrow-hawk |
11 | |
| IV. | The Pīqū Sparrow-hawk |
15 | |
| V. | The Shikra |
17 | |
| VI. | The Serpent Eagle |
17 | |
| VII. | The Eagle Owl |
18 | |
| VIII. | Other Species of Owls |
22 | |
| IX. | The Harriers |
25 | |
| X. | The Lammergeyer or Bearded Vulture |
27 | |
| XI. | The Osprey |
29 | |
| PART II | |||
| THE DARK-EYED BIRDS OF PREY | |||
| XII. | The Eagles and Buzzards |
30 | |
| XIII. | Kites and Harriers |
33 | |
| XIV. | The Vultures |
34 | |
| XV. | The Raven |
35 | |
| XVI. | The Shunqār or Jerfalcon |
36 | |
| XVII. | The Shāhīn |
42 | |
| XVIII. | The Peregrine (Baḥrī) |
47 | |
| XIX. | The Saker Falcon (F. Cherrug) |
49 | |
| XX. | The Eyess Saker Falcon |
55 | |
| XXI. | Strange Arab Devices for Catching the Passage Saker |
57 | |
| XXII. | The Merlin |
61 | |
| XXIII. | The Hobby |
65 | |
| XXIV. | The Sangak |
68 | |
| XXV. | The Kestril |
68 | |
| XXVI. | The Shrike |
72 | |
| XXVII. | Miscellaneous Notes |
73 | |
| XXVIII. | Method of Snaring a Wild Goshawk with the Aid of a Lamp |
75 | |
| XXIX. | Training the T̤arlān or Passage Goshawk |
78 | |
| XXX. | “Reclaiming” the Passage Saker |
94 | |
| XXXI. | Anecdotes of a Baghdad Falconer |
98 | |
| XXXII. | Training the Passage Saker to Gazelle |
99 | |
| XXXIII. | Training the Eyess Saker to Eagles |
110 | |
| XXXIV. | Eyess Saker and Gazelle |
115 | |
| XXXV. | Another Method of Training the Eyess and Passage Sakers to Gazelle |
124 | |
| XXXVI. | Training the “Shāhīn” |
125 | |
| XXXVII. | Training the Passage Saker to Common Heron |
136 | |
| XXXVIII. | Training the Passage Saker to Common Crane |
140 | |
| XXXIX. | On Management During the Moult |
148 | |
| XL. | Remedies for Slow Moulting |
151 | |
| XLI. | On Feeding on Jerboas During the Moult |
152 | |
| XLII. | On Feeling the Pulse, and on the Signs of Health |
153 | |
| XLIII. | On Diseases of the Head and Eyes |
154 | |
| XLIV. | On Diseases of the Mouth |
155 | |
| XLV. | Diseases of the Nose |
157 | |
| XLVI. | On Diseases of the Ear |
157 | |
| XLVII. | On Epilepsy |
158 | |
| XLVIII. | On Palpitation |
160 | |
| XLIX. | The Sickness called Karaj, which is Costiveness |
162 | |
| L. | Hectic Fever or Phthisis |
163 | |
| LI. | On Canker of the Feathers |
166 | |
| LII. | Lice |
168 | |
| LIII. | Worms |
169 | |
| LIV. | Heat Stroke |
170 | |
| LV. | Palsy, etc. |
170 | |
| LVI. | Diseases of the Feet: the “Pinne” in the Feet |
172 | |
| LVII. | On Paralysis of a Toe |
176 | |
| LVIII. | Feathers Plucked Out by the Root |
176 | |
| LIX. | Operation of Opening the Stomach |
179 | |
| LX. | On the Number of Feathers in the Wing and Tail |
181 | |
| LXI. | Counsels and Admonitions |
182 | |
| LXII. | Accidental Immersion during Winter |
183 | |
| LXIII. | Expedient if Meat Fail |
184 | |
| LXIV. | Restoration after Drowning |
184 | |
| LXV. | Sage Advice |
185 | |
| LXVI. | Cure for the Vice of “Soaring” |
186 | |
| LXVII. | On Branding the Nostrils before Setting Down to Moult |
189 | |
| LXVIII. | A Hawk not to be Fed when “Blown” |
190 | |
| LXIX. | Miscellaneous Notes |
192 | |
| ILLUSTRATIONS | |||
| I. | Hunting and Hawking Scene (from a painting in an ancient Persian MS.) |
Frontispiece | |
| II. | Facsimile of a page of the Teheran Lithographed Edition |
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| III. | Persian Carpet depicting Hawking Scene |
2 | |
| IV. | From an old Persian painting, Indian, probably of the Mug͟hal Period |
5 | |
| V. | From a painting in an ancient Persian MS. written in India |
7 | |
| VI. | Persian Carpet depicting the Court of a Sikh Mahārājā |
9 | |
| VII. | Intermewed Peregrine |
43 | |
| VIII. | Young Peregrine (Indian Hood) |
45 | |
| IX. | Young Passage Saker (dark variety) |
51 | |
| X. | Young Passage Saker (dark variety) |
53 | |
| XI. | Hobby with Seeled Eyes |
64 | |
| XII. | Hobby with Seeled Eyes |
66 | |
| XIII. | Hobby with Seeled Eyes |
67 | |
| XIV. | Persian Falconer with Intermewed Goshawk (from a photograph by a Persian) |
77 | |
| XV. | Intermewed Goshawk on Eastern Padded Perch (from a Persian painting) |
79 | |
| XVI. | Arab Falconer with Young Saker on Padded and Spiked Perch |
95 | |
| XVII. | Young Gazelle |
101 | |
| XVIII. | Young Passage Saker (light variety) on Hubara |
117 | |
| XIX. | Young Passage Saker (dark variety) on Hubara |
119 | |
| XX. | Hubara sunning itself |
121 | |
| XXI. | Stone-Plover |
127 | |
| XXII. | Heron Struck Down by Peregrine (photo taken just before the Heron touched the ground) |
129 | |
| XXIII. | Young Peregrine (English Block and Indian Hood) |
131 | |
| XXIV. | Intermewed Peregrines (from a photograph by Lieut.-Col. S. Biddulph) |
133 | |
| XXV. | Hunting and Hawking Scene |
195 | |