Note 722 — Chapter LIII · WORMS

Vide Latham’s The Falcon’s Lure and Cure, Book I, Part II, Chap. xlii, for a receipt: “To kill the ranckness and itching that sometimes will be in Hawkes bloody feathers, which is the cause she pulls them forth in that estate.” The disease referred to is not uncommon in cage birds that are carelessly tended, but I have never met with it in trained hawks in India.