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hawks that may be trusted to kill three and four head of gamej 

 every day — if there be in the stud a passage falcon that will 

 wait on high and steadily, she will so eclipse the eyess for style 

 and pace, and above all in ' footing qualities,' i.e. accuracy of 

 striking her quarry, that there is no comparison between the , 



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pleasure which is afforded by the flights sho"wn by the two hawks. 

 Probably no game hawk has beaten the record of ' Parachute,' 

 as shown on page 269, of 146 head of game in five months, 

 or of ' Vesta,' also the property of the Old Hawking Club, who 

 has killed 297 grouse (besides other game in numbers) during 

 her nine years. Yet in nearly every season that such hawks 



