Note 546 — Chapter XXXVI · TRAINING THE “SHĀHĪN”[539]
D. C. (Douglas Craven) Phillott translation
Bad-kulāh, “hood-shy.” I have heard of sakers being cured of “hood-shyness,” but real hood-shyness is, I believe, a vice impossible to cure. Let a hawk sit barefaced during the moult for six months, and two days after she is taken up she will be as “hood-shy” as ever. A hawk is “hood-shy” that has, owing to bad handling, conceived a terror or hatred for the hood, and “bates” when it is shown to her.