fawns," that he was not drawn in the second ties against War Eagle, whose sad mischance has been thus feelingly described :

" War Eagle and Wee-wee had a very long slip, the latter becoming unsighted before reaching the hare, when the dog got a long and sercre single-handed course; after which he joined with Wee-wee, who had met with another hare, which the dog killed. In the next slip War Eagle led two or three lengthis to a wide ditch; in jumping it he dislocated his off fetlock or knee joint, after which thc bitch ran a protracted course till the hare got safely to a drain; the gallant dog struggling on through the whole of it, the disabled limb, unable to give support, causing his chest to strike repeatedly ou the ground, and particularly in jumping sereral of the ditches. It was a painful sight to every good courser, and doubly so to his owner."

We conclude he will never appear again—a circumstance for which we are heartily sorry, as we seldom, if ever, saw a dog that ran so much to our taste. His celebrated brother Wrestler was disabled in somewhat the same way about eighteen months ago. It seemed as if Wicked Eye was determined, as the sole remaining representative of this noble leash of 1848 black puppies, to show that she had still some running left in her, and hence in the Waterloo Purse she went right away from everything that was put in the slips against her, in the same brilliant style as her younger sister Well-I-Never did last year. The following were the final results of this contest, and of that for the Altcar Stakes :

II.
Wicked-eye beat Glenalvon

Clydesilale beat Triste
Backward beat Writ of Error

Neville bcat The Nailer

III.
Wicked-eye beat Backward I Neville bcat Clydesdale

Mr. Webh's Wicked-eye bcat Mr. G. Gregeon's Neville, and won the pursc.

II.

Dalton beat Trotzig

Wbipcord beat Bonnet Blue
Grecian beat Finisher

Cerito beat Saxon

JII.
Dalton beat Grecian

Cerito beat Whipcord

iv. Mr. G. Gregson's Dalton beat Mr. Cooke's Cerito, and won the stakes. It is remarkable that Cerito and Neville were the A and B of the Waterloo Cup in 1850. In the Altcar Stakes Dalton ran a bye in his first course, simply because his trainer had forgotten to bring Capacity. A facetious “ Bell's Life" writer says

“ It was an introduction of a Waterloo day, fit for the pen and pencil of 'Punch.' Dalton was called to the slips—there he was ! Capacity was called. The door of the dog-cart was unlocked, when lo! the capacity of the cart was unincumbered by a dog-there was no observable capacity of a greyhound to fill the slip--and the trainers stared at each other, for they were without CAPACITY. "Did you not put the dog in ?' 'No-did not you ?' The greyhound was lying comfortably in his kennel some seven miles off, even as in the spirituous North in the olden time, when the nodding hearse, attended by staggering mourners, reached the grave without the coffin, or the corpse."

This great meeting over, the season fast waned to a close ; but still a few meetings remained. Cardington had laurels in store for Esquire,

Priam, Blank, and Penurie ; and no Caprice prevented Mr. Carr's Kentish Fire embodiment of that humour, from whipping Model for the Trentham Cup ; while Hector, Sam Weller, and Strange Doings-in-theNorth caused some money to change hands among the inhabitants of the good town of Kelso. “ Could we but find such hares at Waterloo !” was the universal exclamation at the Lytham Meeting. Here Uncertainty and Crisis divided the Spring Produce Stakes ; Ruby and Catherine Hayes the Pebble Stakes ; while Housemaid, Whalley, and Prize were the three other children of fortune. The second meeting since the revival of the Morpeth Club was singularly successful, and St. Patrick bore off the Great North of England Stakes, and half-a-dozen dogs divided the Baronial. Wigan and Surety turned up trumps at Dalry (Ayrshire); and Jasper and Sweetmeat were enrolled on the old coursing records of Harewood Bridge. Wee Wee, Sanspareil, Minnow, and Bleug were the victors at Altcar; and Leven Water, Nimble, and Epicure (two of them Mr. J. L. Curry's property) achieved similar honours at Malleny. At this meeting, a 20 sovs. a side match, best of three courses, was not decided under six rounds ; and both dogs were so run to a stand-still, that they at last would not look at the hare. At Brough, Shildon, Driver, and Noncondition won two stakes outright; and Sefton, in consideration of his five undecided courses, and being only twenty months of age, divided the third one with Spartan. The great north and south contest at the Wiltshire Champion was a stunning affair. After the first “over,” 17 northern and 15 southern dogs were left standing ; and after the first tie, 9 to 7 was the proportion in favour of the northern dogs. The second ties left only three southern dogs standing out of eight ; and after the third, Mr. Holmes's beautiful Mocking Bird had to fight singlehanded against Welcome, Dalton, and Bonnie Scotland. Dalton had been so exhausted with two heavy runs the day before, each of which was awarded to bim by Mr. Nightingale (very much against public opinion), that he was drawn ; and thus, after defeating Bonnie Scotland, Mocking Bird was put into the slips with Welcome (who had had a cruel bye with Harvest Home), and beat him brilliantly. Nimble was as nimble on her pins at Biggar as she had been at Malleny, and carried off the £162 10s. Champion Cup for puppies ; Epicure, a Malleny winner, running up ; while the £162 10s. Open Champion Cup was awarded to Wigan, and the Club Collar Stakes of £37 10s. to Bell theCat. The South Durham Meeting brought nothing but sapling puppies under Mr. M.George's ken; and, out of the six winners, a brace were each fathered upon Handy Andy, Spanker, and Tom Thumb. Apart from the actual record of winners, which, calculating all the public Coursing Meetings in Great Britain and Ireland, amounted to about 606, there is not much incident connected with the season. In point of engagements, Mr. Nightingale was quite the premier judge, and the principal sale was that of Sir George St. Gore's kennel, which realized about £680. Taking her deeds as a whole, we should say that Mocking-bird was decidedly the most brilliant performer ; and as long as the eyes of coursers can be gladdened by the sight of such an animal, they will never be seduced into deserting their longtails, from an admin ration for Mr. Barr and his wily “greyhounds of the air.”

MOCKING.BIRD: WINNER OF THE WILTSHIRE CHAMPION STAKES, MARCH, 1851.

ENGRAVED BY E. HACKER, FROM A PAINTING BY A. COOPER, R.A.

“Of the winner, Mocking-bird, what shall we say? That she is the best of greyhounds ; for whether she flies over the elastic turf, or skims the deep soil of the fens, or jumps the gaping ditches of Altcar, she is one and the same wonderful greyhound. She is high on her legs, of great length, her body of symmetrical beauty, a snakelike neck and head, her bone is light, and she gives more the idea of speed than endurance; but both of these merits she possesses to the utter discomfiture of her opponents,"

So says one of the authorities of Bell's Life, in his remarks on the late Wiltshire Meeting; while another correspondent thus echoes his high opinion :-“Mocking bird is such an animal as we seldom see. She is of full size, possessing great speed, and has such judg. ment in steadying herself when close on her game, that unless she misses her catcb, she is seldom thrown out in her turn. She has fine oblique shoulders, with a blood-like neck, which enables her to stoop with ease, and she seldom fails in her catch. At this meeting she killed every hare.”

With such an estimate from two keen observers, confirmed too by “ á Voice from the North," we may proceed to offer the customary pedigree and performances of one of ihe best greyhounds of her day.

Mocking-bird, a black bitch, bred by Robert Burton, Esq., of Longnér Hall, Salop, in June, 1848, is by Mr. Fyson's Figaro, out of Lord Stradbroke's Malvina, by Mealman, out of Marsala-Figaro, by King Cob out of Frederica. Thus uniting the best blood of two of our most renowned kennels.

In October, 1850, at the Wil:shire Champion Meeting, Mooking. bird was put out in the third ties for the Druid Cup by Ebb-eventually the winner of the stake. For a full return of this Meeting we refer the reader to page 7 of the Coursing Calendar, the first part of which is given with this number

In November of the same year, at Barton-on-Humber Champion Meeting, she won the St. Leger Stakes, beating Queen of the May (winner of the Londesborough Park Stakes, Market Weigbton), and others, for whose names and courses see again page 13 of the Calendar.

At the Newmarket November Champion Meeting, she divided the All-aged Stakes with Lord Stradbroke's Merchant, the frost preventing a deciding course.

In February, 1851, Mocking-bird again met Merchant (against whom she was drawn) at Newmarket, for the Cup, with the follow