The booke of falconrie or havvking for the onely delight and pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen : collected out of the best authors, aswell Italians as Frenchmen, and some English practises withall concerning falconrie / heretofore published by George Turbervile, Gentleman.

That the diseases which Hawkes haue in their heads, doe commonly come of giuing them too great gorges, and of fowle feeding: the meane to know it.

THe chiefe Falconers say and agrée, that the diseases in hawkes heads doe most commonly bréed of giuing them too great gorges, especially of grosse and ill flesh. For when a Hawke hath too full a gorge, shée cannot well put it ouer and indue it, whereupon it falleth to corrupting and stincking in her gorge by lying too long there, and specially, more in a Hawke that is low and poore, than in one that is high and full of flesh: insomuch that shée is forced to cast it all stincking. And if shee happen to put it ouer so stinking, it attainteth and rotteth her panel, by meanes whereof the fume and stinch as∣cend vp to her head, and there close and stuffe vp her eares, and the passages of her pipes and head, so as the humors which were wont, cannot passe away as they were ac∣customed, by reason whereof the heade swelleth inordi∣nately.

For the humor séeketh issue, and vent eyther at the eares, or at the nares, or at the throat: for want whereof the Hawke falles in danger of death if shée haue not spéedy reme∣dy. And to discerne the disease of the head, the Hawke will sniffe often, and shut her eyes towards night, and some∣times shut eft the one, and eft the other eye, and make as though shée iouked with worse cheare than shée was wont to doe: and then must you beware that shée swell not betwéen the eye and the beake. And if shée doe, then cauterize her in that maner that is set down hereafter. Whensoeuer the hu∣mor makes a shew to sew out at the Hawkes eares, at her nares, or at her throat, then is shée in perill of death, if shée bée not holpen presently.