Bibliotheca Accipitraria a Catalogue of Books Ancient And Modern Relating to Fa
Bibliotheca Accipitraria a Catalogue of Books Ancient And Modern Relating to Fa
James Edmund Harting
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Cap. 31, p. 91) that the eyesses should be left as long as possible in the nest, as they are brought up far better there than in captivity. It is necessary, he says, to feed them well, in order to avoid injury to their feathers, by which expression, no doubt, he refers to what English falconers term I70 BOOKS ON FALCONRY. " hunger-traces. " Eyesses, he says (cap. 35, p. 95), should be fed twice a day, morning and evening; no one should be allowed to approach, but the person who has charge of th...em ; and they should be allowed complete liberty until full grown. This period having arrived, they are taken up in the evening by candle-light, the extreme points of the talons are " coped, " jesses and bells put on, and their eyes " seeled " {de ciliatione sen bluitione ipsorum, Lib. Ii. Cap. 37, p. 67, and cap. 45, p. Io6)- The Emperor discourses at length on jesses, swivel, leash, and bell {de Jactis, de tornetto, de longa et de campanelld), and it is evident from his descriptions that these did not differ much in his day from those used at the present time.
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