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back of head; a broad conspicuous ■;<.'liilc stripe over eye 

 exteiulin/j to back of head, fmcly slrcakcd with black; 

 rest ol upper parts, uniform bhiisli-slale ; tail, darker 

 and barred by five broad faintly defined bands of black- 

 ish and tipped witli whitish; primaries, dusky slale ; 

 lores and cheeks, dull Rrayish-whitc ; lower i)arts, white, 

 everywhere except on throat and lower tail-coverts 

 traversed with numerous narrow bars of slaty color, 

 more broken on the breast, more rcKular on flanks and 

 thighs; chin, throat, and cheeks with very fine black 

 shaft lines; these shaft lines also evident on rest of 

 under ]>arts ; bill, dark-bluish horn color; iris, red; cere, 

 legs, and feet, yellow; claws, black. Young: Above, 

 dark brown, the feathers margined with rusty, this 

 color changing on neck and shoulders to whitish or 

 dull bufTy ; wings and tail, barred with du'iky and liglit 

 brown ; under parts, yellowish-white thickly marked 

 with lance or drop-shaped dark brown streaks ; tail 



more strongly barred than adult's ; a broader white 

 tip ; cere and feet, duller yellow ; iris, yellow ; bill, 

 more brownish. 



Nest and Eggs. — Nest: Usually in a conifer at a 

 gre.it height and in the most inaccessible depths of 

 evergreen woods; constructed of sticks, twigs, weed 

 stalks, and leaves, and lined with strips of bark, grass, 

 and hemlock twigs. Eccs : 2 to S, pale bluish-white, 

 sometimes faintly spotted with pale bufTy-brown but 

 normally immaculate. 



Distribution. — North .'\merica ; breeds froin north- 

 western Alaska, northwestern Mackenzie, central Kee- 

 watin, and northern Ungava south to Michigan and 

 New Hampshire, and in the mountains south to Penn- 

 sylvania and New Mexico; winters from Alaska and 

 the southern Canadian Provinces south to northern 

 Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Atissouri, Indiana, and Vir- 

 ginia ; accidental in I-'ngland. 



Drawing by R. I. Brasher 



GOSHAWK (; na;. size) 

 Savage, fearless, and the merciless foe of poultry and game birds 



