PRACTICAL FALCONRY. 28 
is necessary to be careful in the use of pigeons. When a falcon is 
not entered to grouse till these birds are very strong, she will pro- 
bably lose the first two or three she flies at. Then will come the 
memory of the pigeons she killed easily, and you may see her, after 
pursning the game with no earnestness for a couple of hundred 
yards, wheel back and leave them. Hawks differ, however, some 
losing heart much sooner than others. 
At any rate, do not let a young hawk be too successful with 
pigeons. Give her some old blue rocks, with plenty of law, time 
after time—not, however, till she has flown and killed a couple of 
young ones—and when she comes back tired and disappointed, throw 
up to her a brown chicken on the heather or stubble. 
