HAWKS IN THE FIELD 



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It is convenient also, and not at all troublesome, to keep a 

 daily record of the flights and kills up to date. Such a score 

 will read as follows : — 



Or the double flights may be recorded separately, which 

 is perhaps a better plan. In the general score I mark \ 

 to each hawk which has done any work in a double flight, 

 although in the individual score for the day the fraction 

 set opposite her name may be a larger or smaller one, 

 according as she has done a larger or smaller proportion of 

 the work. 



In the same book which contains such tables it is well to 

 write down some account of any flights which seem to deserve 

 particular notice, as well as notes as to the behaviour of the 

 hawks, their state of health and condition, and any physic 

 which has been administered to them. In fact the book may 

 be made not only a bald record of mere results, but a running 

 commentary upon your sport as it proceeds, to which you may 

 refer not only for pleasant memories in the past, but for hints 

 and warnings for the future. 



In lark-hawking the character of the flights is so different, 

 as has already been explained, that a record of them is hardly 

 complete unless it contains some further indications than appear 

 in the above tables. I add, therefore, a specimen of a score 

 kept in rather fuller form, which, although it may seem rather 

 elaborate in print, is simple and easy enough to keep when in 

 manuscript. Here the lines reserved for each hawk must be 

 somewhat larger than in the other table, so that each unit 

 standing on a line with the hawk's name may have a letter or 

 indication of some kind placed immediately above or below it. 



