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.

Of the Pantas of the gorge.

BEcause many men speake of the disease of the Pantas di∣uersly, and yet know not what it is: I will shew thrée maner of Pantases wherewith hawkes are diseased. The first in the gorge, the second commeth of cold, and the third is in y^e reines and kidneys. The first kind of Pantas commeth of ba∣ting vpon the perch, or vpon the fist of him that beareth them, by meanes whereof some little veines of the liuer breake, and the bloud powreth out vpon the Liuer, which drieth and clod∣deth into small flakes, and those rising vp afterward when the hawke bateth againe, doe stoppe the passages and windepipe, and thereof commeth the Pantas. And sometime when the Hawke bateth, those flakes doe so ascend into her throat, and he ouerthwart it that she presently falleth downe dead: in∣somuch that some hold opinion, it is the Pantas that maketh Hawkes to die sodenly. For proofe whereof, open your hawke when shée is dead, and yee shall finde this maladie in her throat. Master Amè Cassian giueth no Medicine to this Pantas in the gorge, because it cannot bée ministred to her,

neither by her throat nor otherwise. For the disease holdeth her in the very windpipe, whereby the breath passeth in & out. Neuerthelesse his counsell is to close vp the hawke in some conuenient chamber with lattis windows, so as yée may not get out, and to set her two or thrée perches, that shee may flée from one to another, and haue the Sun shine in vpon her if it be possible, and she must haue alwayes water by her. And whē yée féed her, her meat must be cut in small pellets, and haue neyther feather nor bone in it, least she strain her self in tyring, and she must haue but halfe a gorge at once, and but once in a day. This is his counsell and aduise for this mischiefe.