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Hi!
I've come across various spellings regarding the
name of young hawks in different places of the world. But in the rural area of
Scotland where I grew up, and I don't to this day if it was because of his
profound stutter, but it was always called a eee-eye, eee-eye oh! on
old Mc Donalds farm .
Cheers
Bob Rusk.
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Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Crossword
question?
Yes, commonly "eyass" in falconry- (see Mavrogordato, J.G. 1960
A Hawk for the Bush, H.F. and G.Witherby), but also, less commonly,
"eyesses" in the plural (?) (see Lewis, Ernest 1938 In Search of the
Gyr-Falcon, Constable.
Robin Hide
At 03:46 PM 22/09/2006, you
wrote:
Actually
I know of it as EYASS (rather that EYAS). Not used much in modern
literature. Ornithology books generally don't use such words. Actually it is
hard to find the word in legit bird books. David Holland's book "Eagles
Hawks and Falcons of Australia" is an exception. He does use the word and
various other falconry-based terms. I guess he thinks it fits his flowery
style of prose. He also spells it with a double s, as does "The Bird
Almanac". I guess it depends how many spaces are in the CT
crossword.
Philip
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