66 FALCONID^E. 



lore, cheeks, and ear-coverts greyish brown, forming an 

 elongated dark patch on the side of the head ; the legs 

 and toes yellow ; the claws black. 



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 longitudinal streak, 

 instead of a broad patch ; under surface of the wings grey- 

 ish 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. 



