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hawks that may be trusted to kill three and four head of game 

 every day if there be in the stud a passage falcon that will 

 wait on high and steadily, she will so eclipse the eyess for style 

 and pace, and above all in 'footing qualities,' i.e. accuracy of 

 striking her quarry, that there is no comparison between the 





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pleasure which is afforded by the flights shown by the two hawks. 

 Probably no game hawk has beaten the record of ' Parachute,' 

 as shown on page 269, of 146 head of game in five months, 

 or of ' Vesta,' also the property of the Old Hawking Club, who 

 has killed 297 grouse (besides other game in numbers) during 

 her nine years. Yet in nearly every season that such hawks 



