10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PASSAGE HAWK»
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1
The Encyclopedia of Falconry
HAWK, Noble; -Ignoble See under FALCONS, Noble. HAWK, Passage;
PASSAGE-HAWK; PASS AGEHAWK; PASSAGER (Less common, with 'passage'
strongly adjectival, are: passage falcon (1898), passage tiercel, passage
peregrine, etc.) ...
2
Essays on Sport and Natural History
HOW TO TRAIN A PASSAGE HAWK. In a former chapter it was explained that a
passage- hawk is a wild hawk caught during its passage, or migration, and so
called to distinguish it from an eyess, or nestling, taken from the eyrie, or nest.
James Edmund Harting,
1883
The passage hawk, as every wild-caught peregrine is termed, with the distinction
of ' haggard ' when she is captured in the mature plumage — perhaps aged
several years— has proved herself, in our own experience, the superior to the
eyess ...
Harding Edward de Fonglanque Cox, Gerald William Lascelles, Charles Richardson,
1899
4
The Living Image: Shakespearean Essays
He's no eyass But a passage-hawk that footed ere we caught him, Dangerously
free a' the air. 'Faith were he mine (As mine's the glove he binds to for his tirings) I
'd fly him with a make-hawk. He's in yarak- Plumed to the very point. So manned ...
Chapter VIII THE PASSAGE HAWK Gerald Lascelles, in his treatise on Falconry
in The Badminton Library \ has described the passage hawk thus : " What the
professional is to the amateur, or rather, perhaps, what the thoroughbred horse is
to ...
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Badminton library of sports and pastimes
What the falconers of ancient days thus recorded is abundantly confirmed by the
practice of their successors in modern times. The passage hawk, as every wild-
caught peregrine is termed, with the distinction of ' haggard ' when she is
captured ...
7
Transactions - Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society
By this time the Passage Hawk has neared sufficiently to perceive, as he
imagines, a brother Hawk flying a quarry, so he elects to join in the chase.
Suddenly he loses sight of it, but espies a fine white Pigeon flying in almost the
same direction, ...
Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, Thomas Southwell (F.Z.S.),
1889
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Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society
The Falconer now pulls tight the line running to the left-hand pole, vup goes the
Hawk and bunch of feathers, the former flying wildly round in circles at the limit of
his leash. By this time the Passage Hawk has neared sutficiently to perceive, ...
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The Bāz-nāma-yi Nāṣirī: A Persian Treatise on Falconry
The eyess1 of the Qizil is more courageous than the "passage hawk,"2 for it has
the courage of inexperience. Reared with fostering care from its nestling days,
what recks it of the frowns of Fortune ? Untaught by Time, what knows it of the ...
Husām al-Dawlah Tīmūr Mirzā,
1908
The passage hawk, as every wild-caught peregrine is termed, with the distinction
of ' haggard ' when she is captured in the mature plumage perhaps aged several
years -has proved herself, in our own experience, the superior to the eyess in ...
Harding cox and The Hon. Gerald Lascelles,
1892