For antelope-hawking, they chuse such of these hawks as they find to be fierce, and eager to seize their prey; and they are taught to fix upon the cheek of the animal, which retards its motion, so that the greyhounds come in. Though the falcons used for hare-hawking will sometimes, when very hungry, strike the hare dead at once; yet for this sport they prefer such as are not disposed to fix upon the animal, but who, by repeated buffetting on the head with their pounces (rising in the air between each blow), retard the hare, till an ordinary greyhound can come up and seize it. For bird-hawking, they use a large falcon, with long legs, somewhat like the goshawk, which they call _espeer_; and two smaller falcons, stiled the one _zanous_, and the other _shaheen_. This latter must be taken out of the nest, for when old they cannot be trained, and is so fierce that it will fly at any thing. If there were not several gentlemen now in _England_ who can attest it, I should scarce venture to mention, that with the _shaheen_, which is about the size of a pigeon, they often take the largest eagles, of which in this country there are plenty. They formerly were trained to seize the eagle under the wing: and so depriving him of the use of that part, they fell to the ground together: but their present method, as I am informed, is to seize him on the back between the two wings, which has the same effect, but brings him down more slowly, and so gives the falconer time to come in to his hawk’s assistance; in which if he is not very expeditious, the hawk is in either case speedily destroyed. They have also a small hawk, which they train to fly at quails; it much resembles the spar-hawk. Besides those already mentioned for food and sport, the country produces the black vulture[372], some few pelicans[373], the kestrel[374], white stork[375], black stork[376], great eagle-owl[377], several other kinds of smaller owls, the crane[378]; another beautiful sort of crane[379], called by the natives _querky_, which they have often tame in their houses or court-yards; the common heron[380], the flamingo[381] at some seasons, the cormorant[382], the stone curlew[383], the raven[384], the _Royston_ crow[385], the common or carrion crow[386], the jackdaw[387], the magpye[388], the night raven[389], the starling[390], the common blackbird[391]; a kind of jay, whose feathers are beautifully variegated with blue, green, and a sort of brown; as also in the summer the locust bird[392].