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PREYING BIRDS — RAPTORES. 



edges also. Stripe over the eye, and a jiartly concealed i>atcli on occiput, white. Be- 

 neath mottled with white and ashy-brown, in numerous irregular and narrow bars on each 

 feather, and a central stripe on the shaft crossing them. Quills brown, with deeper brown 

 bands, and ashy-white on their inner webs. Tail of same color as other upper ])arts ; be- 

 neath very pale, nearly white, with about four obscure bands of deeper ashy-brown, an<l 

 narrowly tipped with white ; inidcr tail coverts white. 



Younr/, dark brown above, the feathers edged and spotted with light rcddifli, nearly 



A. atricnpitlus. 



white. Tail lifht ashy, with about five wide bands of brown, narrowly tijipcd with asliy- 

 white ; quills brown, with wide darker brown bars, and wide bands of redilish-white on 

 their inner webs. Beneath white, generally tinged yellowish or reddish, every feather 

 with a longitudinal stripe, ending in an ovate spot of brown. Sides and tibi;r, with cir- 

 cular and long spots, and irregular bands of brown ; under tail coverts white, with a few 

 large spots. 



Length, 20.00 to 24.00 ; extent, 38.00 to 44.00 ; wing, 12.50 to 14.00; tail, 9,50 to 11.50. 

 Bill bluish-black and white ; iris, cere, and feet, yellow. 



Hub. Northern parts of North America. 



This is a northern repre.sentative of the family, frequenting dense forests, 

 and only coining into our valleys in winter. I ha\-e seen a dead one on 

 the summit of the Sierra Nevada in Septeniber, and one shot at Michigan 

 Bluffs by Gruber. 



The European goshawk is readily distinguishable from the American 

 species by the much sharper definition of the transverse bars across the 

 breast. 



