30 PRACTICAL FALCONRY. 
course they should always be before your beat, and placed on the 
highest points. If they know for certain that there is a kill, they ery 
“ who-whoop !” and this brings the falconer to the spot; if they are 
uncertain, they wait for the falconer to speak to them, which he 
will not do till he has stood still nearly ten minutes looking for the 
return of the falcon, Tf, she is not back in # shorter time than 
that, she has killed. Then the marker near whom she flew is com- 
municdted with, and a search is made. It is often impossible for 
falconer and markers to hear each other—at any rate to hear any 
sentence, anything more than a falconer’s cry. My markers, there- 
fore, are instructed to point with one arm, just like a finger-post, 
the dizection of the flight, and to insure the news of ‘‘ who-whoop!” 
reaching its destination by the throwing up or waving a hat; 
waving is the best, and it must upon no account be done except in 
the case of a certain kill. Ifthe hawk returns without success, she 
will wait on over the falconer and his beaters, frequently higher 
than she did the first time, and the process of beating is resumed. 
The hawk should certainly be accustomed to some cry when the 
grouse rises, as her head may possibly be turned from the game. I 
shout, and so do the beaters, “ Hooha, ha, ha!” as loud as I can; 
the falcon sweeps round in a moment, and is in instant pursuit. A 
cry may also be used to call her to you, such as “Hiaway!” A 
loud and peculiar whistle, that to which she was accustomed at 
hack, is the best ; only it rather bothers the dogs. 
The directions given in partridge hawking as to taking up the 
bird, and so on, are good here. You may kill two or three grouse 
with a good peregrine, if you get up in time to prevent much eating 
of the quarry ; and it is wonderful how long an eyess will stop on a 
grouse without even much disfiguring it. I constantly find a quarter 
of an hour or twenty minutes a mere nothing. 
But then my birds are flown with a great deal of flesh on them. 
I want weight, to carry them through wind, and to carry them 
