Then they met between the two planes and waited for the engine fitters to climb in the pits and kick the Merlins into life.
These are merlins and peregrines, kept for a friend by the keeper, who is fond of hawking.
Sparrow-hawks and merlins have not unfrequently been known to crash through thick plate-glass windows when in pursuit of prey, or at caged birds.
The merlins can pull down partridges, while the peregrines are flown at larger game.
Merlins and hobbies are too tender to be kept much out of doors.
Usually themerlins begin to refuse them in the latter part of September.
Thus a "grene goose" was anciently recommended for moulting hawks' diet, and on the same principle an ideal food for moulting merlins or sparrow-hawks would be fat quails.
In fact, in the case of merlins and kestrels there is no harm in associating the two sexes, provided all occupants of the club-room are kept, as they should be, constantly provided with plenty of food.
Merlins are particularly troublesome, owing to their vivacity and the smallness of their feathers.
I am, however, disposed to think that when merlins are loose together a good deal of chevying about takes place, which is apt to be dangerous to the growing feathers when the moult is nearly over.
On the other hand, I have found that merlins cannot well have too much stooping at the lure.
In merlins of both sexes the third feather of the wing is usually exactly equal in length to the second, and it is only exceptionally that it is even fractionally shorter.
For carrying is a vice to which the short-winged are naturally disposed, though they are not so bad in this respect as merlins or hobbies.
Even merlins have been found occasionally to take a young partridge in September.
When the ground is wet, merlins and hobbies will sometimes carry their quarry a long way merely in the hope of finding a dry place whereon to deplume and devour it.
For merlins and kestrels, however, it may be recommended without any reservation.
And some female merlins may, under like circumstances, be considered to have had enough before they have quite finished their lark.
For sparrow-hawks and merlins it is distinctly bad, if often taken, and in large quantities at a time.
Merlins are also very subject to apoplexy when short of exercise, and peregrines are by no means exempt from it.
The alert little palm squirrel is often victimised, as are sometimes those bats that are so unwary as to venture forth before the merlins go to bed.
So great a master of aerial manoeuvre is the hoopoe that two merlins working together are required to accomplish its downfall.
Red-headed merlins are addicted to perching on the telegraph wires that are stretched alongside railway lines.
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