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9. AsTUR PALUMBARius, Linn. The Goshawk. 
Moorish. El boz {Favier). Spanish. Azor, Gavilan. 
''This Hawk is resident near Tangier, and is frequently 
seen during passage ; but they are rarely met with in winter. 
They pass northwards in April ; those which breed, nest in 
May. The eggs are pure bluish white, often much stained 
with yellow. The young are so fierce that sometimes those 
in the same nest will kill and eat one another." — Favier. 
The Goshawk, well known in the wooded districts in 
Andalucia under the same name as the Sparrowhawk, is con- 
sidered *'muy valiente,^' being said to carry off partridges 
when they fall to the gun : this I know from my own expe- 
rience. I can but consider it rare, having only met with the 
nest once, on the 15th of May, 1871, when I shot the female 
bird as she flew off the nest, which was a mass of sticks on 
an alder tree, about fifteen feet from the ground or, rather, 
mud, in the thickest part of the Soto Gordo, in the cork- 
wood. The nest was evidently not a new one, and seemed 
to be an old nest of some eagle repaired by the Goshawks. 
It contained three eggs on the point of hatching, stained 
yellow all over with dirt, so as to resemble the eggs of 
a Grebe which had been sat on some time. On washing one 
of these eggs, however, the bluish ground-colour appeared. 
I saw at Tangier several eggs stained in the same manner, 
marked as Goshawk's ; and until I took their fac-similes 
myself I did not believe them to be genuine. 
Lord Lilford took a nest of the Goshawk, with three eggs 
(which appears to be the usual number), in the CotoDonana, 
in April or early in May. 
10. AcciPiTER Nisus, Linn. The Sparrowhawk. 
Moorish. Bou-umeira takouk (Cuckoo- Hawk). Spanish. 
Gavilan, Milano jaspeado (Marbled Kite). 
" Is resident in the vicinity of Tangier, and common during 
passage in small flights, which pass to Europe during February, 
March, and April, returning in August and September." — 
Favier. 
The Sparrowhawk is resident in wooded districts near 
