Note 566 — Chapter XXXVI · TRAINING THE “SHĀHĪN”[539]

“Haggards” will often unbind to avoid the concussion on striking the ground and then rebind. The translator had a haggard saker trained to kite, which never failed to unbind; he cannot, however, recollect a case of a young passage hawk, peregrine or saker, unbinding either from heron or kite. The Persian author is here writing either of the eyess or of the young shāhīn, captured some time before September.