114 ART AND PRACTICE OF HAWKING 



recognising as she does the superior style of a haggard or 

 passager, will readily imitate her, and join in a chase upon 

 which she sees that the other has embarked. A double flight 

 is very pretty, and very effective. The way in which the two 

 hawks assist one another, waiting each for her turn to stoop, 

 and making her plans so as to profit by the action of her 

 comrade for increasing the force of her own strokes, is interest- 

 ing even to the most careless observer of animal life. But the 

 double flight is better reserved for such more arduous under- 

 takings as the pursuit of kites, herons, and gulls. A few words 

 will be said in a later chapter about these quarry and the sport 

 they afford. But in all the main particulars it resembles that 

 which has been here described. The rook flight is at once the 

 commonest and the most typical form of sport when the hawks 

 are flown out of the hood ; and he who has successfully trained 

 a peregrine to this business should have no great difficulty in 

 making any other of the large long-winged hawks to such other 

 quarry. 



