I am indebted to Mr. John Riley, of Putley Court, Herefordshire, 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, 1 mole. Isolt (eyess female goshawk)-- In 1885-86, took 110 rabbits, 2 pheasants, 13 water-hens, 5 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 11 partridges, 5 pheasants, 2 landrails. Tostin (haggard male goshawk), caught 15th 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. [Illustration: TRAINED GOSHAWK "GAIETY GAL" OWNED BY MR. A. NEWALL] 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. When he was unsuccessful, instead of coming straight back, he would throw up two or three hundred feet, moving his head from side to side as he flew. Sometimes he would come down upon partridges on the ground, so as to put them up all round him, and then, if there was no friendly hedge at hand, he was pretty sure to have one. It was no doubt a great feat to get him fully trained in so short a time after his capture as fifty-six days. Pity his brilliant career was so soon ended by death! Almost all the partridges taken, by one hawk or the other, were captured in fair flight, without any routing about in hedges or other covert.