Note 434 — Chapter XXXII · TRAINING THE PASSAGE SAKER TO GAZELLE[426]

Ṣafrā, Ar. “bile; the ‘casting’ of a hawk”: t̤aʿmah, lit. “food,” also means “casting.” The Turkish for a “casting” is tuk-samik, i.e., tuk, “feather,” and samik, “bone.” In a good Indian hood, the beak aperture is so cut away that a hooded hawk can, with a little difficulty, both eat and cast, but in the Persian hood a hawk cannot open its beak sufficiently wide to give exit to the casting.