A host of the commonest actions are dignified by more or less quaint appellations. When a hawk sleeps she "jowks"; when she sips water she "bowses." When she seizes her quarry in the air she "binds" to it; and when her companion in the flight comes up and also takes hold, she or he is said to "join." When she strips the feathers of the "pelt," or dead body, of the quarry, she "deplumes"; and as she passes the food from her crop downwards she "puts over." To "endue" is to digest; to "feak" is to wipe her beak after eating; to "rouse" is to shake herself; to "mantle" is to stretch out the leg in a sideways and backward direction, and afterwards stretch the wing over it; to "mute" is to evacuate; and to "cast" is to throw up the refuse feathers, bones, and other indigestible matter which remains in her crop after a meal has been digested. When a hawk is pushed or forcibly held down by the hands she is said to be "cast" (French, _abattue_); and when she is bound up in a wrapping, so as not to be able to move, she is "mailed." When a silk thread is passed by means of a needle through the upper eyelids and made fast under the chin she is said to be "seeled," and the process of undoing these fastenings is called "unseeling." When she stretches her wings upwards over her head she "warbles." When quarry is put up for her, she is "served" with it. When she drives a quarry to take refuge in covert she is said to "put in"; and when she rises in the air over the place where the quarry has gone into hiding she "makes her point." If instead of doing this she goes and takes perch on a tree or other place of vantage, she "blocks." When her digestive organs are brought into good condition she is said to be "enseamed." Most of these words can be used indifferently for both long-winged and short-winged hawks; but others are inappropriate for the latter. Thus it is wrong to call the claws of a short-winged hawk talons; and a goshawk or sparrow-hawk does not "mute," but "slice." Black Shaheen (_Falco peregrinator_, or _Falco atriceps_) This hawk is decidedly smaller than the true peregrine, the female hardly exceeding a big tiercel in length or weight. It is distinguished by the darker colour of its head, and especially of the sides and moustachial streak, which may be called black. The under parts of the body have a more or less pronounced rufous tinge; and the ends of the wings, when closed, approach more nearly to the end of the tail.