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and black. Sometimes there are two broods in a season; but we do not 
know that this occurs in Ohio. Both parents assist in the work of 
incubation, and are active in providing for the wants of their youn g family. 
In their general habits they are more amiable than other hawks, are easily 
tamed, and exhibit considerable attachment. They occasionally winter in 
Ohio. 
In size, the male and female are nearly alike. The adult male has a 
white frontal band, with a spot on the back of the neck, and two others 
on the side of the neck, and a line running from the eye downwards, black. 
Upper part of the head bluish-lead colored, with a spot of light-reddish. 
Back of the neck, and back down to the middle of the tail, light-reddish. 
Wing-coverts, bluish-lead colored, with black spots; quills brownish-black, 
barred with white on the inner webs. Under parts palish-red, approaching 
in many specimens to white, spotted with circular and oblong black mark- 
ings. ‘T'ail with a broad band of black, often tipped with white, some- 
times the outer feathers are ash-colored, with black bars. Bill blue; feet 
and legs yellow. The wing-coverts of the female are rusty red, with nu- 
merous cross-bars of brownish-black; tail the same. Underside with 
many longitudinal stripes of blackish, and cross-bars of the same on the 
tibia. The red spot on the head, in many specimens of both sexes, is 
sometimes very obscure. 
Length, eleven to twelve inches, including tail, which is from five to five 
and a half inches. 
Specimens in the Cleveland Academy Museum. 
Il. Sus-FaAmity ACcIPITRINZ.—THE HAWKS. 
Bill short and hooked; the upper mandible with a lobe, but no tooth; 
tarsi, long, slender; toes long; claws, long, curved and sharp. Their 
flight is swift, and habits active and daring. 
GENus AstuR—Lacepede. 
Form, strong, but rather slender; bill, short, curved, festooned; nostrils, 
large, slightly ovate, inserted in the cere; wings of moderate size, but the 
tail long and broad; tarsi, rather long, covered on front with widish trans- 
verse scales; toes, long; claws, long and sharp. 
Astur ATRICAPILLUS— Wilson—THE GOSHAWK. 
Wilson’s Am. Orn. VI. plate 52, fig. 8; Audubon’s Birds of Am., Oct. 
ed., L, pl. 28; Fauna Boreali Americana, Birds, pl. 26. 
