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with reddish brown; feathers of the tail reddish brown, parti- 
cularly toward the base, with three conspicuous dark brown 
transverse bands. In other particulars like the female, and 
both have a collar formed by a mixture of white and brown, 
which extends from the sides of the neck to the nape.” 
From the Naturalist’s Library, I quote the following— 
“‘'The male has the upper plumage of an uniform pale black- 
ish grey ; tip of the tail and nuchal collar white; quills clove 
brown, darkest at the tips, with clouded bars on their inner 
webs. ‘T'ail with a dark bar after the white tip, shading up- 
wards, and three bars afterwards indistinct above, decidedly 
marked beneath. Auriculars, buff orange, darker along the 
shafts. ‘Throat and chin pale ochraceous, with dark shafts ; 
breast, belly, vent, and thighs, ochraceous; shafts dark, and 
thickly marked with reddish buff orange ; in the centre of the 
belly tinted with brown, under tail coverts white. Length 
above twelve inches; from shoulders to tip of fifth quill, eight 
and a quarter. 
“The female, with the upper parts clove brown, darkest on the 
crown, and sometimes tinted with rufous; on the tips of the 
auriculars, above the eyes, and on the hind head, the tips of the 
feathers only are dark, and the light bases appearing, produce a 
pale line above the eyes, and a variegation with white on the 
hind head; the quills and tail are barred with narrow darker 
bands, conspicuous on the under surface of both. The under- 
parts are of a delicate yellowish white, on the throat and neck 
streaked with clove brown, sometimes tinted with rufous, and 
on the other parts, except the lower tail coverts, barred with 
the same colour, which also runs to a point on the apical bands, 
and sometimes along the shafts ; at times these bars are much 
darker than at others, and shew beautifully and distinctly 
on the pure white breast; feet and legs gamboge yellow; 
irides rich safron yellow. Length from 14 to 15 inches; 
one shot this morning (in November, 1836) 14 inches 3 
quarters; expanse of wing 24 or 25 inches. In a young 
female before us, the upper parts are nearly yellowish brown, 
tinted with grey, and have the edge of each feather ochra- 
ceous ; on the head and back of the neck darker, and edged 
with rufous. The lower parts yellowish white, on the breast, 
a yellowish brown streak along the shaft of the feather, which, 
on the lower part of the breast, or on the belly, stretched out 
at the base to a bar, and produced an appearance at once both 
barred and streaked. On the thighs and vent, the distribution 
is in bars of a brownish tint. In the young Goshawk, the breast 
marking is all longitudinal bars, here it assumes somewhat that 
