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shire, for the following most interesting records of scores with 

 trained goshawks, and the notes which are annexed. They 

 illustrate this department of hawking in the most vivid and 

 practical way : — 



Enid (eyess female goshawk) — 



In 1888-89, took 82 rabbits. 



„ 1889-90, „ 59 rabbits, 1 pheasant, 1 water-hen. 

 „ 1890-91, „ 67 rabbits, 1 water-hen, 1 partridge, 



1 stoat, 1 mole. 

 „ 1891-92, „ 52 rabbits, I mole. 



Isolt (eyess female goshawk) — 



In 1885-86, took no rabbits, 2 pheasants, 13 water-hens, 



S ducks, 1 rat. 

 „ 1886-87, „ 130 rabbits, 1 pheasant, 4 ducks, 3 water- 

 hens, 1 stoat. 

 „ 1887-88 (to 26th Dec), took 70 rabbits. 



Sir Tristram (eyess male goshawk) — 



In 1886-87, took 26 partridges, 10 pheasants, 16 rabbits, 

 5 landrails, 12 water-hens, 1 stoat. 



Geraint (eyess male goshawk) — 



In 1888 (to 4th Oct.), took n partridges, 5 pheasants, 

 2 landrails. 



Tostin (haggard male goshawk), caught 15 th July, flown 9th 

 September — 



In 1891 (to 17th Oct.), killed 21 partridges, 3 pheasants, 

 1 landrail, 1 leveret, 1 wood-pigeon, 1 water-hen = Total, 

 28 in 38 successive days. 



Mr. Riley trains his own hawks, and, for convenience and for 

 saving time in an enclosed country, has sometimes used a lure. 

 He keeps them as hard at work as he can. He has much 

 difficulty in finding enough quarry for them, and is much 

 troubled by poultry. But for these causes the bags made would 

 have been even much larger than they were. He has a great 

 preference for haggards, whose style of flying he considers 

 very far superior to that of the eyesses. Tostin, especially, 

 used to shoot up some feet when he left the fist ; and this 

 seemed to have a demoralising effect on the partridges. He 

 hit them so hard that the blow could be heard a long way off. 



