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GOSHAWK. 
Astur palumbarius, SeLBy. Gout. 
Falco palumbarius, PENNANT. 
Buteo palumbarius, FLEMING. 
Accipiter palumbarius, JENYNS. 
Astur—Conjectured from Asturia, in Spain. Palumbarius— 
Palumba—A Pigeon. 
Tuts species occurs in Europe, Asia, Africa, and perhaps in 
America; in the former, it has been known in Holland, Denmark, 
Norway, Russia, Sweden, Germany, France, Italy, and Switz- 
erland; in Asia, in Chinese Tartary and Siberia; North Africa, 
also in North America, according to some opinions. 
The Goshawk, though a short-winged species, and differing 
therefore in its flight from those most esteemed in falconry, 
was highly valued in that art, and flown at hares and rabbits, 
pheasants, partridges, grouse, ducks, geese, herons, and cranes. 
In Yorkshire, the only occurrence of this bird on record, was 
at Cusworth, near Doncaster, where one was killed in_ the 
year 1825, by the gamekeeper of W. B. Wrightson, Ksq., 
M.P. A fine specimen in immature plumage was shot at 
Westhorpe, near Stowmarket, in the county of Suffolk, on the 
20th. of November, 1849. An adult male was trapped by a 
gamekeeper in the same county, in the month of March, 1833; 
and in November in the same year, another was obtained in 
the adjoining county of Norfolk: it had alighted on the rigging 
of a ship, and was brought into Yarmouth. An immature 
male Goshawk was killed near Bellingham, in Northumberland, 
in the month of October, in the same year. A very fine female 
was shot at Bolam Bog, in the same county, on the 18th. of 
February, 1841. Another female near the Duke of North- 
umberland’s Park, at Alnwick, in the same year; and again 
a fourth, also a female, was caught in a trap near Beddington, 
by the gamekeeper of Michael Langridge, Esq. Dr. Moore 
records it as having been found occasionally on Dartmoor, 
