NORTH AMERICAN FALCONRY AND HUNTING HAWKS. By Frank L. Beebe and Harold M. Webster.

(1964) 2000 reprint. Large 4to (220 x 287mm). Ppxiv,465. Many full-page colour plates, mono plates, illustrations, bibliography, foreward by Dr. Heinz Meng, colour pictorial end-papers, ads. Gilt falcon motif and titles to brown cloth, spine titled in gilt.

The latest edition of the bible of North American falconry. Chapters include: Introduction to North American falconry; The falconer; Problems and legal aspects; The nature of predation; The birds of falconry; A few comparisons; Hawk furniture and housing; On obtaining a bird; Field equipment; Eyass or passenger; The status of the Peregrine Falcon, Tom Cade; Hoods and hooding Parts I and II, Gene Johnson; Lures and luring; The Peregrine Falcon, the unhackle; The Peregrine Falcon, the Arctic migrants; The Peregrine Falcon, game hawking; The Prairie Falcon; The Prairie Falcon, with Michael McDermott; The Cooper's hawk, with Michael McDermott; The Sharp-Shinned Hawk, with Michael McDermott; Training the accipiters - imprinting, Michael McDermott; The accipiters, game hawking, Michael McDermott; The passage goshawk, Ben G. Ohlander; The North American Merlin; The North American Kestrel Parts I and II, with Matthew Mullenix; Conditioning; Of wind and weather; Of moult and feather; Dr. Mike's foolproof imping, J. Michael Pearson; Shipping raptors; Pigeons; Diseases, ailments and injuries Parts I and II, Patrick Redig, Victoria Joseph; Humble beginnings, the story of NAFA; Transportation and field procedure; Flying passage prairies on sage grouse, Hubert Quade; Breeding falcons and hawks in captivity, James H. Enderson, Pete Widener Jr., Greg Thomas; Raising, training and hunting the Harris' hawk, Parts I and II, Neil Smith, Gene Johnson; The dogs of falconry, Hal Webster; English pointers and falconry dogs, Dale Guthormsen; The Sky Trial concept, Rick Sharp; The kite technique, Dale Guthormsen; The future of falconry.