Note 752 — Chapter LVIII · FEATHERS PLUCKED OUT BY THE ROOT
D. C. (Douglas Craven) Phillott translation
On a first of October I saw a young passage-saker minus six of its tail-feathers: the clumsy hawk-catcher, in his eagerness, had stepped on the tail. Forty days later these tail-feathers were one-fourth part grown and the falcon was also coming well to the lure. In Falconry in the British Isles, by Freeman and Salvin, mention is made of a merlin’s tail-feather, which had dropped out, growing again.