ft04 GOSHAWK F it L C O JT, 



99. Goshawk. £c. Zw/. i. N* 52. 



F. Palumbarius, Faun, Sttee. N" ^j.—De BuffoHt i. 2iC.--Lal&aiit, i, jS.-^et*. 

 Mus. 



T^ With a bluifli bill, blacK; at the tip ; yellowifh green cere :-. 

 yellow legs : head brown 5 hind part mottled with white : overr 

 eacla eye extends a long whitifh line : hind' part of the neck, back,, 

 and wings, of a deep brown color : breaft and belly white, croffed. 

 with numerous undulated lines, of brown :- tail of a cinereous brown,, 

 crofTed by four or five bars of black :• wings fhorter than the tail. 

 That which I faw in the Leverian Mufeum, was fuperior in fize to.- 

 Place. the European.. Mr. Law/on fays, they abound in Carolina :■ are fpi- 



rited birds, but leffer than thofe of Mufcovy. 1% common in that 

 A WHITE VA- country, and Sihiria. Dr. Pij/Zi^j adds,, that there- is a large white 

 RiETT. variety on- the Uralian mountains, mottled with brown and yellow. 



Thefe are yet more frequent in the eaft part of Sibiria ; and in^. 

 Kamtjchatka they are entirely white. Thefe are the beft of all Hawks. 

 Excellent FOR for falconry. They extend to the river yf«»«f j and are ufed by the 



FALCONRY. ^ ■' . rr » i i i i • 



emperor oi China in his fporting progrelies *, attended by his. grand 

 falconer, and athoufand of the fubordinate. Every bird has a filver 

 plate faftened to its foot, with the name of the falconer who had the,- 

 charge of it ; that in cafe it -Ihould be loflr, it might be brought to. 

 the proper perfon : but if he could not be found, the bird is de- 

 livered to another officer, called the Guardian of loft birds ^ who 

 keeps it till it is demanded by the falconer to whom it belonged. 

 That this great officer, may the more, readily be found, among the 

 army of hunters, who attend the emperor,, he eredts a ftandard in the- 

 moft confpicuous place f. 



The emperor often carries a Hawk on hi& hand^ to let fly at any, 

 game which prefents itfelf i which are ufually Pheafants, Partridges, 

 Quails, or Cranes. Marco Polo faw this divcrfion about the year. 



• StU. ii. S^i t Bergeron, 75, 76, 



