Note 611 — Chapter XXXVIII · TRAINING THE PASSAGE SAKER TO COMMON CRANE

Bāsh-qanāt dādan: bāsh, T., “head,” and qanat, T., “wing.” This consists in holding a live bagged bird in the hand and getting the hawk to “bind” to it from the distance of a foot or so, or getting the hooded hawk to bind to it and then unhooding her: the hawk is of course rewarded either by a pigeon’s wing stealthily inserted under the train’s wing, or the train is killed and the hawk allowed to eat a little.