220 BIRDS. 



form them into a small tribe under the name of Cymindis, Cuv.* 



Such is 



F. Cayennensis, Gm. ; Le Petit Autour de Cayenne, Buff. Enl. 

 473; Spix, VIII. It has another peculiar character in a small 

 tooth at the spot where the bill curves. The adult is white, with a 

 bluish-black mantle, cinereous head, and four white bands on the 

 tail ; in the young bird the mantle is variegated with brown and red, 

 and the head is white, with some black spotsf. 



AsTUR, Bechst. — Daedelion, Savigny. 



The Goshawks, which form the second division of the Ignobles, like 

 the last three tribes of Eagles, have wings shorter than their tail ; but 

 their bill is curved from its base, as in all those which are to follow. We 

 particularly designate as Goshawks those which have rather short and 

 scutellated tarsi. 



F. palumbarius, L. ; Enl. 418 and 461 ; and the young, F. galli- 

 narius, Gm. Enl. 425; and Frisch, LXXII; Naum. 17 and 18+. 

 (The Common Goshawk). The only species in France; brown 

 above, with white eye-brows : white beneath ; the adult transversely 

 striped with brown; longitudinally sprinkled when young; five 

 browner bands on the tail. It equals the Gerfalcon in size, but not 

 in courage ; always stooping obliquely upon its prey. Falconers, 

 however, sometimes use it for the weaker kinds of game. Common 

 in hills and low mountains. 



Among foreign Goshawks, we may remark that of New Holland, 

 Falco Novae Hollandice, White, Voy. p. 250, which is very often 

 entirely of a snow white ; but it seems that it is a variety of a bird 

 of the same country, which is ash coloured above, white beneath, 

 with vestiges of grey undulations §. 

 We may also approximate to the Goshawks some American birds with 

 short wings and tarsi ; the latter, however, reticulated. 



* Cijmindis, the Greek name for an undetermined bird of prey. 



f I am not sure whether it is not a young Cymindis that is represented in the 

 Base mantelee {F. paUiatus, Tem.), Col. 204, very different from that which has the 

 same French name, Col. 437. 



Add the Hooked Bill Cymindis, F. hamatus, Illig. Col. 61 and 231, F. leucopygus, 

 Spix, II. the Crooked Bill Cymindis, F. uncinatus, Id. Col. 103, 104, 105. These 

 birds vary greatly in colour with age. 



N.B. The Gottingen Eagle {F. glaucopis, Merrem. Beytr. II.pl. vii.), is a Common 

 Buzzard. The White Eagle {F. alhus, Sh.; John White, Voy.) is a Goshawk. 



X Also, probably, F. gyrfalco, F. gentilis, Gm. ; — so badly determined were the birds 

 of prey at the period at which we published our first edition. 



§ Other foreign Goshawks: F. poliogaster, Tem. Col. 264 and 295; — F. trivirgatus, 

 Tem. Col. iOZ;—F. leucauchen, Tem. Col. 306;— F. radiatus, Lath. Col. 123, I'^tit. 

 poliosome, Quoy and Gaym. Voy. de Freycin. pi. xiv; — F. leucorrhous, lb. pi. xiii; — 

 F. unicinctus, Tem. Col. 313. These three last, in shape, closely resemble the 

 uruhitinga. The F. pennsylvanicus, Wils. IV. liv. 1 ; — the F. borealis, L. Vieill. 

 Am. pi. xiv. bis; Wils. li. 1 ;— F. leveriamis, Wils. lii. 2;— F. striolatus, T. Col. 87 

 and 294, or Asturine cendree,Y\e\\\.. Gal. 20; — F. monogrammicus, T. Col. 314; — 

 F. Dussumieri, T. Col. 308 and 386. The latter lead insensibly to the Sparrowhawks. 



N.B. The F.ceerulescens forms the genus Hierax of Vigors: the species with two 

 teeth, as the bidentatus, &c. or the Bidens of Spix, are the Harpagus of the same 

 gentleman. 



