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during any part of the year, and thus the green jackets of 

 the members and their servants have become well known in 

 Kildare, in Wexford and in Cork, in Sutherlandshire and 

 Caithness, in Yorkshire and in Hants, in fact wherever hawking 

 could be carried on in the United Kingdom, while it is only 

 the lack of time and leisure that has prevented them from 

 carrying the sport yet further afield in response to numerous 

 invitations. Of the sport which has been shown we have 

 treated to some extent under the various heads of game and 

 rook hawking. The total number of head of quarry killed of 

 all sorts is very large, but perhaps the return of the year 1887 

 may serve as a specimen of the sport carried on by the club ; 

 it was as follows : 



Rooks 209 



Magpies 13 



Grouse ....... 95 



Black game ...... 2 



Partridges 114 



Rabbits 112 



Pheasants 5 



Hare i 



Various ....... 25 



576 



During the year 1890 244 rooks were killed in the spring 

 and 95 grouse between August 12 and September 6, when 

 game hawking came to an end temporarily, owing to the 

 death of the falconer, John Frost. 



During the period of its existence the club has owned many 

 hawks of marked excellence. One of the first that is worthy 

 of mention was an eyess tiercel called ' Druid,' trained in 1864, 

 which, after a visit to Ireland and being entered to magpies, 

 was flown regularly at rooks for some three seasons on Salis- 

 bury Plain, as we have already stated when treating of rook 

 hawking. We have not known an eyess tiercel to repeat 

 this feat since the days of ' Druid,' though in recent times Mr. 

 St. Quintin has trained and flown one or two at gulls that would 



