Coursing and Falconry (The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, Book 17)

xiii, 413 pp. CONTENTS: Coursing: Introduction; The Waterloo Cup; A Treatise on Breeding; Practical Greyhound Breeding; Treatment of Saplings; The Greyhound in Training; Enclosed Coursing; Some Celebrated Greyhounds of the Past; Opinions of Noted Coursers; Description and Points of the Greyhound; Some English Coursing Clubs; Falconry: Introductory--The Modern Falconer--Implements Used--Glossary of Terms; The Peregrine--Eyesses--Hacking Hawks--Training--Game Hawking--Records of Sport--Magpie Hawking; The Peregrine--Passage Hawks--Advantages of--How Caught--Mode of Training--Heron Hawking--Rook Hawking--Gull Hawking--Passage Hawks for Game--Lost Hawks; Gerfalcons--Kite Hawking--Hare Hawking--Merlins--How Managed--Lark Hawking--The Hobby--The Sacre--The Lanner--Shanins--Sport in India--Other Varieties of Hawks Used in Falconry; The Short-winged Hawks--Goshawks--How Obtained--Training--Entering--Rabbit Hawking--Various Flights--The Sparrow-hawk--Management--Blackbird Hawking; Celebrated Falconers--Scotch, Dutch, and English Clubs--The Falconers' Club--Colonel Thornton--The Loo Club--The Old Hawking Club--Amateur Falconers--Famous Hawks--Records of Sport; General Management--Mews; Blocks--Perches--Bow-perch--Bathing--Condition--Feeding--Castings--Imping--Moulting--Various Diseases--General Hints; Appendix; Index.