DESERT HAWKING: WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS. [Compiled by] Harry McElroy.

1996 1st edition. Large 4to (220 x 288mm). Pp430. Colour and b/w photographs, illustrations, bibliography. Pictorial laminated boards, issued without a dust-wrapper.

This is Harry McElroy's third volume in his useful, and much sought-after, series. In the case of this title, McElroy contributes the first twelve chapters and chapter twenty-two, the remaining nine by friends and fellow falconers. Chapters include: Equipment and accomodation; The blue darter (Accipiter cooperii); The imprint; anti-aggression conditioning; The brancher Cooper's; The passager; Weight control; Diet; The molt and Dr. Tuttle's prescription; The austringer's bird dog; Hunting; The yellow-eyed bicolored hawk (Accipter bicolor) - Oscar Biengolea; Group hunting with Harris' hawks - Tom and Jennifer Coulson; Hunting respectable quarry with the American kestrel - Jennifer Coulson; The passage merlin, an outstanding game hawk - Jennifer and Tom Coulson; Hawking with the red-tail passage or eyas - Mario DiDominico; The longwinger's Harris hawk and other falcons - Harry McElroy; Method of hood making - Eric Tabb; Classical game hawking with passage prairie falcons - Dr. Kenneth Tuttle; Clubs, rehab, education and research - Harry McElroy.