WOLF HUNTING EAGLES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12765, 17 June 1911, Page 12 (Supplement)

WOLF HUNTING EAGLES.

KIRGHIZ SPORTSMEN CARRYHUGE BIRDS ON THEIR WRISTS, .All wanderers are- lovers of the chase, but for sheer love of sport and daring (A-ploits the Kirghii! take the palm. Central -Asi^, is.the home pf falconry, " which', was-not intrcKluc«d into jKu rope until the Crusaders -brouQcht back vfnlcons with them from their,: Eastern wanderings'.-. But imagine tho > ambttioii ol: the men who tip their birds, at w'plves and foxes instead of at quails and partridges!- Not content with , hunting game birds mith.. small falcons, the? Ifirghiz capture and train the great golden eagles, with which they hunt siich game,as gazelle, foxes, and eren wolves. r A ivell-mounted Girghia - ialconcr carrying on,-his ■ wrist one of theso magnificent bfrds is a fine sight. The weight of the eagle is such that the owner requires a support for his wrist, and the hunters ore usually to be seen with a wooden bracket that supports tho arm aga: nst the hip. . The eagles are hooded, as all falcons are, but can only be used in winter when they are hungry and keen. In summer they are fed on marmots and . live a restful life, sitting in the sun in front of the tent doors. When gazelle or wolves are the objects of tlio chase, the eagles are aided by long, slee-k greyhounds of a vsmall breed, the dogs running in and pulling down the quarry when the eagles have sufficiently, bewildered if. —"Wido World .Magazine."