GOSHAWK. 73 



Young birds have the beak, cere, and eyes nearly similar 

 to those of the old birds ; the top of the head, nape, and 

 ear-coverts, ferruginous white, each feather darker in the 

 middle ; back, wings, and upper tail-coverts, brown, mar- 

 gined with buff; upper surface of the tail-feathers with 

 five bands of dark brown and four bands of lighter brown, 

 the ends of all the feathers white ; wing-primaries dark 

 brown, barred with two shades of brown on the inner 

 webs ; the chin, throat, breast, and belly, greyish white, 

 each feather with a central elongated patch of dark brown ; 

 thighs and under tail-coverts with a dark brown longitu- 

 dinal streak, instead of a broad patch ; under surface of 

 the wings greyish white, with transverse dusky bars ; under 

 surface of the tail-feathers greyish white, with five darker 

 greyish brown transverse bars, the tips of all the feathers 

 white ; legs and toes yellow brown ; the claws black, those 

 of the inner toe considerably larger than those of the 

 outer. 



Bewick, in his excellent work on British Birds, having 

 figured an adult Goshawk, a young bird was chosen for 

 the illustration here given. 



