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Goshawk is occasionally taken in the plains of the Punjab 
during the cold weather. I saw,” he adds, “a pair in July 
1864, that evidently had their nest in a wood in the Asrang 
valley above Chini, about 12000 feet high.” 
My friend, Mr. Thompson, sends me the following account of 
hawking with the Goshawk in the forests of Gurhwal and the 
Terai. 
“Several are caught on the high peaks of Josheemat, Tomy- 
naut, Tuppobund, &c. during October and November, when it 
would appear that the birds leave their snow-girt valleys, and 
betake themselves to others lower down, and free from snow. 
The trap consists of vertical nets six feet high, of stout thread 
enclosing three sides of asquare and open at top. In the centre, 
a Pigeon is tied to the end of a small stick, which again is fasten- 
ed by the other end to a peg in the ground; two other pegs, 
one on each side of this first peg are driven in, and from these, 
fine strings are carried to the point of the stick to which the 
Pigeon is fastened. These strings assist in keeping the stick in 
its place, when the man pulls another string, by which the stick 
is alternately raised, and then suddenly allowed to fall, thereby 
giving that fluttering motion to the Pigeon’s wings which best 
serves to attract the Hawk. The trapper hides under some 
bushes, and as his trap is usually set on the very summit of the 
ridge or peak, can keep a good look out for any bird approach- 
ing, when he sees one he begins to pull at his Pigeon and 
watches with keen anxiety every movement of the Goshawk. 
The latter, as a rule, the instant he sees the Pigeon, dashes at it 
either from one of the enclosed sides, or through the open one, 
and striking against the net is enveloped in it. The nets, I 
should note, are supported on four slender posts firmly driven 
into the ground one at each corner of the square, and to these 
the nets are loosely hung by fine threads, or hairs from a cow’s 
tail ! 
“The price of a young female varies from Rs. 40 to 60. Birds 
of first, second and third plumage, are valued at considerably less, 
not even a fourth of what a young bird will fetch. The males 
are of proportionately less value. Nearly all of the birds caught 
in British and foreign Gurhwal are taken to the Punjab, a tew 
only finding their way down to Rohileund. | 
“ Despite of all that is said about short wing Hawks, this bird 
is capable of attaining a high degree of efficiency as a bold and 
rapid flyer,” a fagless worker, and affording decidedly the best 
* As instances :—I have taken Coturnia Communis in the middle of April 
with my Goshawks flying straight off the fist at the Quail. My Goshawks 
have ee at Partridge and Quail 800 to 1,000 yards from where they were 
slipped. 
