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of the perfect style of the passage hawks with which she has 

 been generally flown. This falcon was flown chiefly at grouse 

 (though a great number of sundries were killed by her, as well 

 as partridges in one or two years). For nine successive seasons 

 she visited Scotland, and her average score for each season 

 is 33. She died in the winter of 1890. 



The remarkable score made in 1882 by an eyess falcon, 

 ' Parachute,' is recorded when treating of game hawking in 

 Chapter II . This was a very steady high-mounting tractable 

 falcon, easily worked, and thus very deadly. She was in 1882 

 two years old. Nor must the ger-tiercel 'Adrian,' trained 

 in 1878, be forgotten when speaking of hawks perfect in 

 style. 



Of tiercels two very good passage hawks were trained in 

 1873, 'The Earl ' and ' The Doctor.' These tiercels were the 

 only two trained hawks with which we have succeeded in taking 

 wild peewits in March. Many excellent magpie and partridge 

 hawks have been trained, among which ' Cabra ' and ' Meteor ' 

 will long be recollected by members of the club. ' Shamrock ' 

 and 'Shillelagh,' two Irish tiercels (eyesses), were flown in 

 the autumn of 1873, in Kildare and Wexford chiefly. These 

 two formed an almost perfect cast of magpie hawks, and 

 with them the smallest field could kill a magpie. It was 

 beautiful to see how perfectly the two little hawks under- 

 stood the whole game, and to watch how they divided the 

 labour, one always mounting high and remaining steady at a 

 lofty pitch, so as to dominate the magpie and command every 

 point by which he could escape, while the other at a lower 

 pitch would drive at the quarry every moment that the white 

 wing fluttered, and either drive him below the fatal pitch of 

 his comrade or else seize him for himself. These tactics never 

 failed, and the two hawks rarely omitted to adopt them, and 

 would exchange roles as often as flights were found for them. 

 A year or two afterwards a cast of tiercels, ' Buccaneer ' and 

 'Meteor,' killed in thirteen days 44 magpies on similar 

 ground. Such performances as these have no doubt been 



