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The encyclopaedia of sport (1897)

Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898, Peek, Hedley, Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 227

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birdsturned into a loose box, or any outhouse fromwhich they cannot escape, care being taken tolay down straw, tan, or sawdust, to prevent thebreakage of the stiff tail feathers, which form souseful a rudder when in the water. Here theymay be fed on fish, until such time as they canbe forwarded to… … C.\ii. r. H. Salvin^ Suu-l.NSrECTOK. It is taught (like a hawk) to come to the the lure —a tin bo.x containing its food whichis rattled every time the bird is fed—and mayeven be carried on the gloved hand like afalcon. A small leather strap being buckledround the lower part of the neck before the…

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