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a very different style. She makes very large circles or 

 rings, travelling at a high rate of speed, due to her strength 

 and weight and power of flying, till she rises above the 

 heron. Then she makes her attack by stooping with great 

 force at the quarry, sometimes falling so far below it as 

 the blow is evaded that she cannot spring up to the proper 

 pitch for the next stoop, and has to make another ring to 

 regain her lost command over the heron, which is ever rising, 

 and so on, — the "field" meanwhile galloping down the wind 

 in the direction the flight is taking till she siezes the 

 heron aloft and "binds" to him, and both come down together. 

 Absurd stories have been told and pictures drawn of the 

 heron receiving the falcon on its beak in the air- It is, 

 however, well known to all practical falconers that the 

 heron has no power nor inclination to fight with a falcon 

 in the air; so long as he is flying he seeks safety solely 

 in his wings. When en the ground, however, should the falcon 

 be deficient in skill or strength, or have been mutilated by 

 theicgping of her beak and talons, as was sometimes formerly 

 done in Holland with a view to saving the heron's life, the 

 heron may use his dagg§r-like bill with dangerous effect, . 

 though it is very rare for a falcon to be injured. It is 

 never safe to fly: a" goshawk' at a heron of any description. 

 Short-winged hawks do not immediately kill their quarry as 

 falcons do, nor do they seem to know where the life lies, 

 and seldom shift their hold once taken, even to defend them- 

 selves; and they are therefore easily stabbed by a heron. 

 Rooks are flown in, the same manner as herons, but the flight 

 is generally inferior. Although rooks fly very well, they 

 seek shelter in trees as^soon as possible. 



For game hawking eyases are generally used, though 

 xindoubtably passage or wild-caught hawks are to be preferred. 

 The best game hawks we have seen have beeia. passage hawks, 

 but there are difficulties attending the use of them. It 

 may perhaps be fairly said that it is easy to make all 

 passage hawks "wait on" in grand style, but tmtil they have 

 got over a season or two they are likely to be lost. Among 

 the advantages attending the use of eyases are the following: - 

 .they are easier to obtain and to train and keep; they also 

 moult better and quicker than passage hawks, while if lost 

 in the field they will often go home by themselves, or remain 

 about the spot where they were liberated,' jixperlence, and, 

 we must add, some good fortune also, are requisite to make 

 eyases good for waiting on for game. Slight mistakes on 

 the part of the falconer, false points from the dogs, or 

 bad luck in serving, will cause a young hawk to acquire bad 

 habits, such as sitting down on the gro\md, taking a stand 

 in a tree, raking out wide, skimming the ground, or lazily 

 flying about at no height. A good game hawk in proper flying 

 order goes up at once to a good pitch in the air--the higher 

 she flies the better — and always follows her master from 

 field, always ready for a stoop when the quarry is sprung. 

 Hawks that have been successfully broken and judiciously 

 worked become wonderfully clever, and soon learn to regulate 

 their flight by the movements of their master. Eyases were 

 ^nrLirt fS «aLem by the old falconers, and it is evident 



