PARTRIDGE-HAWKING. 217 
The provincial name of “ puttock,” which occurs in the 
above quotation, is sometimes applied to the kite, some- 
times to the common buzzard. In this case, as shown by 
the context, the kite is the bird referred to. A greater 
enemy to the partridge than either of these birds is the 
peregrine, whose skill in taking this game was early 
turned to advantage by falconers. Partridge-hawking was 
formerly a favourite pastime, and is still, to a certain ex- 
tent, with those few who still maintain the practice of 
falconry. For this sport either the peregrine or the goshawk 
may be used. Aubrey has recorded a curious event which 
happened when -he was a freshman at Oxford in 1642. 
He frequently supped with Charles I., who then resided at 
the University; and on one of these occasions he heard 
the King say that—“ As he was hawking in Scotland, he 
rode into the quarry, and found the covey of partridges 
falling upon the hawk.” He adds that the King said—“I 
will swear upon the book that it is true.” Mr, F. H. Salvin 
has been very successful in taking pheasants with the male 
goshawk, which he found required no “ entering,” but flew 
and killed even old cocks, threading his way through the 
trees in a wonderfully rapid manner.* 
Those who made their living by fowling, and could not 
afford to hawk, took their birds by springe and net; and 
* Some interesting remarks on pheasant and partridge-hawking will be found in 
Freeman and Salvin's ‘‘ Falconry ; its Claims, History, and Practice," pp. 233, 235. 
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