falconry, a disease in hawks, &c., consisting of filaments or strings of blood coagulated; and occasioned by a violent rupture of some vein, by which the blood, extravasating, hardens into these figures, and incommodes the reins, hips, &c.

Filanders, are also worms as small as thread, and about an inch long, that lie wrapt up in a thin skin or net, near the reins of an hawk, apart from either gut or gorg.

This malady is known by the hawk's poverty; by ruffling her tail; by her straining the silt, or perch, with her pounces; and lastly, by croaking in the night, when the filanders prick her. The disease proceeds from bad food; and must be remedied in time, to prevent its spreading over the whole body, and destroying the bird. These must not be killed as other worms are, for fear of impotencies from their corruption, being incapable of passing away with the hawk's meat. They must only be stumped, to prevent their being offensive; and this is done by giving the hawk a clove of garlic, after which she will feel nothing of the filanders for 40 days. It will be prudent in the falconer, when he observes the hawk poor and low, to give her a clove of garlic once a month by way of prevention.