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they have done well. I have taken a dozen Jungle Fowl in a 
couple of hours with them, using dogs to flush the birds. ‘They 
have also killed Peacocks in a single flight, and Hares without 
ever having been booted. I have also taken Teal and Ducks in 
woody swamps, by appearing at the water from a point whence 
a distant view could be had of the Water-fowl. The Hawk, on 
being shown the Ducks, would fly at once to the tree nearest to 
them, and there wait inambush. The beaters were then sent 
to flush the Fowl, one of which the Hawk caught in the air as 
the flock rose, almost perpendicularly, out of the water.” 
No. 22. Lophospiza Trivirgatus, Rernw. 
Tur Crestep GosHAWK. 
While the common Goshawk is a true Paleearctic type, never I 
believe finding its way far south of 30° North Latitude, the Crest- 
ed Goshawk belongs essentially to the middle Paleetropical or 
Indian Region, and while unknown north and west of Delhi, is 
found throughout Southern India and Ceylon, in Assam, Bur- 
mah, Java, Borneo, Sumatra and the Philippine Islands, For- 
mosa, and probably Southern China generally. 
IT know nothing of the nidification of the species beyond 
what Layard, quoted by Jerdon, says, of its breeding on rocks 
in Ceylon. It is common enough on the Neilgheries, and it is 
to be hoped that some of my correspondents there, will make it 
a special study. 
Swinhoe has the following note (Ibis, 1866) on ‘a fine fe- 
male” killed in Formosa. ‘“ Length, 16°25 inches; wing, 9 
inches ; tail, 76 inches. First quill, 1-5 inches shorter than the 
third, which is 0°3 inch shorter than the fourth and fifth, the 
longest in the wing. The second to the fifth quills indented on the 
inner web, the first less sinuated. ‘T'ail of twelve, nearly equal 
feathers, rectrices barred, the outer pair with only one faint 
bar near the base, and an indistinct one near the tip. Legs 
yellow. Claws black. Tarsi about 2°75 inches long, feathered 
for about 1°75 inches down the front; middle toe without the 
claw, about 1°62 inches ; claw of outer toe, about the same size as 
that of the middle toe, inner toe, shorter than the outer, with 
the claw nearly as large as that on hind toe.” 
Wallace in the Ibis for 1868, gives the “ bill black, base, lead 
colour; iris and cere, orange yellow; cheeks and orbits olive ; 
feet yellow. Length 15 inches.” 
