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Falconry, “the favorite amusement of royalty and nobility during the Middle Ages,” was enjoying something of a resurgence in the 1920s. William Humphries, with his Bavarian goshawk, Flora, was no doubt well versed in the terms itemized in this helpful glossary from The Times: “The various parts of a hawk have their peculiar names. The legs from the thigh to the foot are the arms; the claws, the pounces; the wings, sails; the crop is the gorge; the upper bill, the beak; the lower, the clap; and the yellow portion between the beak and the eyes is the cere.” Photo: The New York Times

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