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LET US RESTORE AMERICAN WILD LIFE. 
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Imaginary benefit you dream of attaining in the 
future. 
Our hostility and desire to exterminate the 
hawk seems like a strange piece of absurdity in 
contrast with the cultivation and almost worship 
of them in European and eastern countries. 
From time immemorial they have been made pets 
of in those countries and used for sport in 
hunting. Hawking is one of the oldest of out 
door pastimes; many books, highly technical in 
some of their descriptions of the methods of 
training the birds, have been written in several 
European languages. Though less heard of now 
in the multiplicity of modern amusements, hawk¬ 
ing is still followed with enthusiasm. In the 
London Field for March 21, 1914, I noticed an 
account of over 400 grouse killed in one season 
by some one who followed this sport. The 
birds were found and pointed by setter dogs, 
and as they rose the hawk was turned loose to 
pursue and strike one down. I have seen a hawk 
strike a pigeon in mid-air and the dash and 
vigor of the blow is even more arousing than 
the dash of a charge of shot you turn loose from 
a gun. I can well understand the delight of 
having your fiery little pet return after such a 
dash to perch on your hand until you give him 
another chance. 
He is a brother sportsman like yourself, and 
his methods are even more sportsmanlike than 
yours; far superior I should say to shooting a 
pump gun four or five times into a flock of 
birds. More sportsmanlike than even the double 
barrel. 
It will be noted that those 400 grouse indicate 
something of a game supply. In Persia too, 
hawking seems still to be followed. A traveller 
writing in the National Geographic Magazine 
for December 1914, (Vol. 26, p. 569). describes 
the proud owner of a falcon two years old that 
already had 200 gazelles to his credit. 
Our hawks in this country are rather mild and 
moderate so far as preying on birds is con¬ 
cerned. Most of them like the Red Tail, Broad 
Wing, Red Shouldered, Rough Legged, etc., 
cannot be trained to hunt as sport. They are 
too harmless; they feed too much in their nat¬ 
ural state on mice and insects; and they have 
mot the power and agility to kill on the wing. 
They usually take their prey on the ground, 
dropping down on it from their perch on a tree, 
•or flying to it with a long swoop. Many of them 
spend nearly all their time for this purpose in 
one comparatively small locality. The Goshawk, 
Cooper’s Hawk, the Sharp Shinned, the Pigeon 
Hawk. Sparrow Hawk, and the Duck Hawk, 
are more like hunters and fly over large tracts 
of territory in search of food. But of these 
only the Pigeon Hawk, Sparrow Hawk and 
Duck Hawk are capable of killing flying game 
in the air. They seem to be the only hawks we 
have of the kind used in Europe for hunting. 
They may be called, I suppose, true falcons, the 
most highly organized swift flyers, that can 
strike down their game in the air. They could 
possibly be trained to hunt as hawks are trained 
in Europe. 
The best of them would probably be the Great 
Footed Hawk, or Duck Hawk, as we usually 
call it. His proper name is said to be the Peri- 
:grene Falcon and he is supposed to be a close 
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