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GOSHAWK. 



Astur palumbarius, SELBY. GOULD. 



Falco palumbarius, . PEXXAXT. 



Buteo pafunibarins, FLEMING. 



Accipiter palumbarius, JENYXS. 



Astur Conjectured from Asturia, in Spain. Palumbarius 



PalumbaA Pigeon. 



THIS species occurs in Europe, Asia, Africa, and perhaps in 

 America; in the former, it has been known in Holland, Denmark, 

 Norway, Russia, Sweden, Germany, France, Italy, and Switz- 

 erland; in Asia, in Chinese Tartary and Siberia; North Africa, 

 also in North America, according to some opinions. 



The Goshawk, though a short-winged species, and differing 

 therefore in its flight from those most esteemed in falconry, 

 was highly valued in that art, and flown at hares and rabbits, 

 pheasants, partridges, grouse, ducks, geese, herons, and cranes. 

 In Yorkshire, the only occurrence of this bird on record, was 

 at Cusworth, near Doncaster, where one was killed in the 

 year 1825, by the gamekeeper of W. B. Wrightson, Esq., 

 M. P. A fine specimen in immature plumage was shot at 

 Westhorpe, near Stowmarket, in the county of Suffolk, on the 

 20th. of November, 1849. An adult male was trapped by a 

 gamekeeper in the same county, in the month of March, 1833 ; 

 and in November in the same year, another was obtained in 

 the adjoining county of Norfolk: it had alighted on the rigging 

 of a ship, and was brought into Yarmouth. An immature 

 male Goshawk was killed near Bellingham, in Northumberland, 

 in the month of October, in the same year. A very fine female 

 was shot at Bolam Bog, in the same county, on the 18th. of 

 February, 1841. Another female near the Duke of North- 

 umberland's Park, at Alnwick, in the same year; and again 

 a fourth, also a female, was caught in a trap near Beddington, 

 by the gamekeeper of Michael Langridge, Esq. Dr. Moore 

 records it as having been found occasionally on Dartmoor, 



