+-----+----------------+----------------+----------------+-----------------+ |1883.| Eva. | May. | Ruy Lopez. | Total. | +-----+----------------+--------+-------+--------+-------+--------+--------+ |Sept.|Flights.| Kills.|Flights.| Kills.|Flights.| Kills.|Flights.| Kills. | +-----+--------+-------+--------+-------+--------+-------+--------+--------+ | 1 | 43 | 34 | 51 | 33 | 40 | 28 | 134 | 95 | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | 46 | 37 | 54 | 36 | 40 | 28 | 140 | 101 | | | | | | | | | | | | 3 | 48-1/2 | 38-1/2| 56-1/2 | 37-1/2| 41 | 29 | 146 | 105 | | | | | | | | | | | | 4 | 53-1/2 | 42-1/2| 61 | 39-1/2| 44-1/2 | 30-1/2| 159 | 112-1/2| +-----+--------+-------+--------+-------+--------+-------+--------+--------+ Or the double flights may be recorded separately, which is perhaps a better plan. In the general score I mark 1/2 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. The method of keeping such a record may be best illustrated by explaining it in detail.