$8 THEHAWKOWL. 



out exciting violent gestures and screams. Though of dif- 

 ferent sexes, and confined to the same cage, they contracted 

 no frien iship for each other which might soothe their impri 

 sonment, and finally, to end the dismal picture, the female, 

 in a fit of indiscriminate rage and violence, murdered her 

 mate in the silence of the night, when all the other feathered 

 race were wrapped in repose Indeed their dispositions are 

 80 furious, that a Goshawk, left with any other falcons, 

 soon effects the destruction of the whole. Their ordinary 

 food is young rabbits, squirrels, mice, moles, young geese, 

 pigeons, and small birds, and, with a cannibal appetite, they 

 sometimes even prey upon the young of their own species. 

 They construct their nests in the highest trees, and lay froia 

 two to four eggs of a bluish-white, marked with lines and 

 spots of brown. The egg of our bird, according to Audu- 

 bon, is without spots. 



THE HAWK OVfl..—{Str{x funerea.) 



This remarkable species, says Mr. NuttaH, forming a con- 

 necting link with the preceding genus of the Hawks, is 

 nearly confined to the arctic wilds of both continents, being 

 frequent in Siberia and the fur countries from Hudson's 

 Bay to the Pacific. A few stragglers, now and then, at dis- 

 tant intervals, and in the depths of winter, penetrate on th# 



