in the care of their young. This bird is in some places 

 considered a delicate article of food. It is migratory. 



THE PARADISE GRAKLES, 



A native of India and the Philippine Islands, is somewhat 

 larger than a blackbird. Its colour is a chesnut brown, 

 the head and neck black : the abdomen white. This bird 

 is said to be voracious, and is particularly fond of locusts. 

 When the Island of Bourbon was overrun with the latter, 

 this Grakle was introduced to get rid of them, and with 

 success. It is of a lively and imitative disposition, and 

 when young may be taught to articulate. If kept in a 

 farm yard, it will imitate the noises of the different animals, 

 with strange gesticulations. 



THE SPARROW HAWK. 



LIKE other birds of the Hawk kind, this species varies 

 greatly in its colours ; but it is too well known to require 

 a very particular description. The male and female differ 

 considerably in size, as well as in tints ; the length of the 

 former being about twelve inches, and the expansion of the 

 wings twenty three; while the length of the latter is 

 fifteen inches, and the expansion of the wings twenty six. 



THE GOS HAWK. 



THIS bird is larger than the common Buzzard, and of a 

 larger and more elegant conformation. The skin at the 

 base of the bill has a yellowish green colour; over each 

 eye is a long white line, and on each side of the neck, a 

 bed of broken white. The head, the hind part of the 

 neck, the back, and the wings, are of a deep brown colour; 

 the breast and belly are white, beautifully marked with 

 transverse bars of black. The tail is long, and of a 

 brownish ash colour, marked with dusky bars. 



