220 BIRDS. 
form them into a small tribe under the name of Cyminpis, 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 spots}. 
Astur, Bechst.—Darper.ion, 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 GosHawxs 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, LX XII; Naum. 17 and 18 f. 
(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 Nove Hollandie, 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. 
* Cymindis, the Greek name for an undetermined bird of prey. 
+ Iam not sure whether it is not a young Cymindis that is represented in the 
Buse mantelée (F. palliatus, '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. Beytyr. II. pl. vii.), is a Common 
Buzzard. The White Eagle (F. albus, Sh.; John White, Voy.) is a Goshawk. 
{ 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: £'. poliogaster, Tem. Col. 264 and 295 ;—F. trivirgatus, 
Tem. Col. 303 ;—F’. leucauchen, Tem. Col. 306;—F. radiatus, Lath. Col. 123, 7’ Aut. 
poliosome, Quoy and Gaym. Voy. de Freycin. pl. xiv;—F. leucorrhous, Ib. pl. xiii;— 
F. unicinctus, Tem. Col. 313. These three last, in shape, closely resemble the 
urubitinga. The F. pennsylvanicus, Wils. TV. liv. 1;—the F. borealis, L. Vieill. 
Am. pl. xiv. bis; Wils. li. 1;—F. leverianus, Wils. lii. 2;—F. striolatus, T. Col. 87 
and 294, or Asturine cendrée, Vieill. 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. c@rulescens forms the genus H1ERAx of Vigors: the species with two 
teeth, as the bidentatus, &c. or the BrpENs of Spix, are the Harpacus of the same 
gentleman. 
