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Finally, America produces birds with beaks similar to the pre- 
ceding ones $ very short reticulated tarsi half covered with feathers 
in front ; wings shorter than the tail, and whose most distinguishing 
character consists in their nostrils, which resemble fissures. We 
may form them into a small tribe under the name of Cyminpis, Cuv. 
(1) Such is 
fF. 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 beak curves. The adult is white, 
» with a bluish-black mantle, cinereous head, and four white bands 
onthe tail in the young bird the mantle is variegated with 
brown and red, and the head is white, with some black spots. (2) 
Astur, Bechst.—DarpeEtion, Savig. 
_ 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 beak is curved from its base, as in all those which are to 
follow. We particularly designate as Gosuawxs those which have 
rather short and scutellated tarsi. 
F. palumbarius, L.; Enl. 418 and 4613 and the young & galli- 
narius, Gm. Enl. 4253; and Frisch, LX XII; Naum. 17 and 
18.(3) (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 
syoung; 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 Hol- 
land, alco Nove Hollandiz, White, Voy. p. 250, which is 
very often entirely of a snow white; but it seems that it is a va- 
—F. tyrannus, Pr. Max. Col. 73 ; L’ Autour cristatelle, Temm. Col. 285: of species 
without crests, ?Autour neigeux, Temm. Col. 127;—/’Aut. incolore, Id. ib. 134, or 
Falco lineatus, Horsf. Java. 
(1) Cymindis, the Greek name for an undetermined bird of prey. 
(2) Lam 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 Fr ench name, Col. 457. 
Add the F. hamatus, Mig. Col. 61 and 231, F oben Spix, UH, the F. 
uncinatus, Id. Col, 103, 104, 105. These birds vary greatly in colour with age. 
N..B. The Gottingen Eagle, (F. glaucupis, Merrem. Beytr. U, pl. vii,) is a Com- 
mon Buzzard. The White Eagle (F. albus, Sh.; John White, Voy.) isa Goshawk. 
(3) Also probably F. gyrfalco, F. gentilis, Gm;—so badly determined were the 
birds of prey at the period of the first edition. 
