430 Mr. R. Swinhoe's Ornithological Notes made at Chefoo. 



7. Goshawk. Astur palumbarius (L.). 



Mr. Campbell, of the lighthouse, brought me on the 10th 

 October a yearling of this species which he had shot about his 

 premises the day before. The Hawk carried off one of his 

 chickens. He shot it and redeemed his property, but in a 

 lifeless state. I did not at the time know the undress of the 

 Goshawk, and was puzzled about the species, thinking that I 

 had got a large female of our Formosan Astur virgatus. The 

 specimen before me had a brownish upper dress, with broad 

 bands to its tail, and a small pointed occipital crest. Its bill 

 was blackish on the culmen, bluish at the base. Cere and 

 round eye greenish ; rictus yellow ; iris pale yellow. Legs 

 and feet greenish yellow ; claws black. When I showed this 

 Hawk the other day to Mr. R. B. Sharpe, he recognized it 

 at once as the immature of the Goshawk, and said he had 

 seen small crests in European specimens. I obtained the 

 Goshawk before at Pekin in complete plumage (see P. Z. S. 

 1871, p. 341). 



8. Sparrow-Hawk. Accipiter nisus (L.). 



A female Sparrow-Hawk was brought to me on the wrist 

 by a native. He was training it for hawking. 



9. Stevenson's Hawk. Accipiter stevensoni, Gurney. 



Throughout May in my country rambles I would fre- 

 quently meet natives carrying Hawks on their wrists. This 

 species was in the greatest request. How the natives caught 

 these Hawks I do not know ; but the birds they were training 

 were invariably males more or less adult. They did not know 

 the female. I only once came upon a man actually engaged 

 in hawking. His Hawk had captured two small birds [Locus- 

 tella lanceolata) ; and the owner seemed very proud of the feat 

 accomplished by his " eleve." He had a cap for his bird 

 siirmounted by a crest of feathers, much like the " Falcon's 

 hood " used in Europe, and a bell on the tail at its base, with 

 a few strips of red and blue cloth pendent. When the bird 

 shook or flew the bell tinkled. An adult male measured 10 

 inches in length. Wing QQ, the tip of the main quills extend- 

 ing 1*4 beyond the tips of the tertiaries, and 2*1 short of the 



