HA WKS. 



GOSHAWK. Astur palumharhis, (L.) 



Yarrell, i. p. 83 ; Harting, p. 4 ; Dresser, v. p. 587 ; Seebohn, 

 i. p. 142; Ibis List, p. 97 ; Pultemi/'s List, p. 3; Natura- 

 list, ii. p. 173. 



Although Professor Newton, in the fourth edition 

 of Yarrell's " British Birds," mentions twenty-six 

 instances of its occurrence in Great Britain, it is now 

 a rare straggler. Pulteney speaks of it as not un- 

 common in his time, when game-preserving was not 

 attended with such continuous persecution of birds 

 of prey as at the present day, and when a larger 

 extent of uncultivated country favoured its existence. 



SPAKROAV-HAWK. Accipiter nisus, (L.) ] 



Yarrell, i. p. 88; Harting, p. 4; Dresser, v. p. 599; Seehohm, 

 i. p. 135 ; Ibis List, p. 98 ; Falco nisus, Fulteneifs List, p. 3. 



There is a curious account of a sparrows-hawk's 

 fate in the Field, November 20, 1876. A corre- 

 spondent (i?. W. G., Weymouth) noticed a sparrow- 

 hawk suspended by the claw from the top of a bush, 

 and found it had been choked while endeavouring 

 to swallow a mouse, which was firmly fixed in its 

 throat. 



KITE. Milvus ictinus, Savignj'. 



Yarrell, i. p. 92 ; Harting, p. 5 ; Dresser, v. p. 643 ; Milvus 

 regalis, Seebohm, i. p. 74 ; Ibis List, p. 99 ; Falco milvus, 

 Fulteney's List, p. 3. 



At the beginning of the present century the Kite 

 was very common ; it is now only an accidental 



