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Major Fisher's establishment is one of the oldest now in 

 England. He has principally devoted himself to game hawking, 

 especially at grouse, but has annually visited the downs in the 

 spring for a brief season at rooks. For the first years of his 

 hawking career Major Fisher chiefly confined himself to eyesses, 

 of which he trained some very superior hawks, especially those 

 taken from Lundy Island. But of late years he has adopted 

 the passage falcon for game as well as for other flights, although 

 his original predilections were in favour of eyesses alone for 

 this flight ; and we have the Major's authority for saying that 

 he has found the passage hawk as superior for game as he had 

 already proved her to be at other quarry, especially in the case 

 of a famous falcon called 'Lady Jane Grey,' which he has 

 flown for some eight seasons. His falconer for many years 

 past has been James Retford. 



Another well-known establishment is that of Mr. T. J. Mann, 

 of Hyde Hall, Sawbridgeworth, who with Alfred Frost for his 

 falconer has had much sport in Norfolk and Herts both with 

 peregrines at rooks and game, and with a famous goshawk 

 known as ' The Shadow of Death.' 



Colonel Watson and Mr. Bingham Crabbe have also a 

 joint mews in Ireland, with E Dwyer as falconer, now located 

 in Ireland. And in that country lives also a veteran falconer, 

 Mr. W. Corbet, of Rathcormack, Cork, to whom many a 

 beginner is indebted for assistance. Mr. Corbet, had a fine 

 acquaintance with the numerous eyries of Ireland, and in some 

 years reared and hacked a great number of hawks, which were 

 often at the disposal of those to whom he thought they would 

 be of good service. 



The Hon. C. W. Mills has also a mews of hawks at Mul- 

 grave Castle, Yorks, under the charge of Peter Gibbs, but the 

 principal work done hitherto has been with the goshawk at 

 rabbits. 



Besides these gentlemen, many amateurs as stated above 

 train their own hawks, among whom may be quoted the 

 veteran Mr. F. Salvin, one of the authors of ' Falconry in the 



