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When he was unsuccessful, instead of coming straight back, he 

 would throw up two or three hundred feet, moving his head 

 from side to side as he flew. Sometimes he would come down 

 upon partridges on the ground, so as to put them up all round 

 him, and then, if there was no friendly hedge at hand, he was 

 pretty sure to have one. It was no doubt a great feat to get 

 him fully trained in so short a time after his capture as fifty-six 

 days. Pity his brilliant career was so soon ended by death ! 

 Almost all the partridges taken, by one hawk or the other, were 

 captured in fair flight, without any routing about in hedges or 

 other covert. 



To show what goshawks will do when well worked, I may 

 mention that Mr. St. Quintin's falconer (now the head falconer 

 of the Old Hawking Club) took out his female goshawk in 

 November 1885, and gave her seventeen chances at rabbits 

 lying out in the grass. She caught them all, but being a bit 

 blown, let the last one go. Sir Henry Boynton's goshawk. Red 

 Queen, on 2nd December 1895, killed as many as twenty-four 

 rabbits in one day. 



The illustration is a portrait of " Gaiety Gal," the goshawk 

 which, while she was owned by Mr. Arthur Newall and flown 

 by him, killed in one season fifty-five hares, nineteen rabbits, 

 two pheasants, one partridge, one wood-pigeon, one Norfolk 

 plover, one landrail — total, eighty head. This fine hawk was 

 afterwards sold for i^2o ; and the vendor always considered that 

 he had been a loser by the bargain. 



