ACCIPITRES. 239' 



Finally, America produces birds with beaks similar to the pre- 

 ceding ones; very short reticulated tarsi half covered with feathers 

 in front ; wings shorter than the tail, and whose most distinguishing^ 

 character consists in their nostrils, which resemble fissures. We 

 may form them into a small tribe under the name of Cymindis, Cuv. 

 (1) Such is 



F. Cayennensis, Gm. ; Le Petit Jlutour de Cayenne, Buff, Enl. 

 473 ; Spix, VIII. It has another peculiar character in a small 

 tooth at the spot where the beak curves. The adult is white, 

 with a bluish-black mantle, cinereous head, and four white bands 

 on the tail ; in the young bird the mantle is variegated with 

 brown and red, and the head is white, with some black spots. (2) 



AsTUR, Bechst. Daedelion, Savig. 



The Goshawks, which form the second division of the Ignobles, 

 like the last three tribes of Eagles, have wings shorter than their tail; 

 but their beak is curved from its base, as in all those which are to 

 follow. We particularly designate as Goshawks those which have 

 rather short and scutellated tarsi. 



F. palumbarius, L.; Enl. 418 and 461; and the young F. galli- 

 narius, Gm. Enl. 425; and Frisch, LXXII; Naum. 17 and 

 18.(3) (The Common Goshawk.) The only species in France; 

 brown above, with white eye-brows; white beneath; the adult 

 transversely striped with brown; longitudinally sprinkled when 

 young; five browner bands on the tail. It equals the Gerfalcon 

 in size, but not in courage; always stooping obliquely upon its 

 prey. Falconers, however, sometimes use it for the weaker kinds 

 of game. Common in hills and low mountains. 



Among foreign Goshawks, we may remark that of New Hol- 

 land, Falco Novae Hollandide, White, Voy. p. 250, which is 

 very often entirely of a snow white; but it seems that it is a va- 



F. tyrannus, Pr. Max. Col. 73 ; U Autour cristatelle, Temtn. Col. 285: of species 

 without crests, l' Autour neigeux, Temm. Col. 127; I'Aut. incolore, Id. ib. 134, or 

 Falco Uneatus, Horsf. Java. 



(1) Cymindis, the Greek name for an undetermined bird of prey. 



(2) I am not sure whether it is not a young Cymindis that is represented in the 

 Buse mantelee, {F. palliatus, Tern.) Col. 204, very different from that which has 

 the same French name, Col. 437. 



Add the F. hamulus, Illig-. Col. 61 and 231, F. leucopygus, Spix, II, the F. 

 uncinatus. Id. Col. 103, 104, 105. These birds vary greatly in colour with age. 



N. B. The Gottingen Eagle, (F. glaucopis, Merrem. Bey tr. II, pi. vii, ) is a Com- 

 mon Buzzard. The White Eagle [F. alius, Sh.; John White, Voy.) is a Goshawk. 



(3) Also probably F. gyrfalco, F. gentilis, Gm. ; so badly determined were the 

 birds of prey at the period of the first edition. 



