118 GOSHAWK. 



of a dusky-ferruginous colour, except a few slight 

 dashes of white on the breast. Said to be a native 

 of Newfoundland. 



GOSHAWK. 



Falco palumbarius. F. fuscus fascia superciliari alba, subtub' 



albus Uneis transversis fuscis. 

 Brown Falcon with white superciliary stripe ; beneath white, 



with transverse brown lines. 

 Falco palumbarius. F. cera nigra margine pedibusque flavis, 



corporefusco, rectricibus fasciis pallidis, superciliis albis. Lin, 



Syst. Nat. 

 Accipiter palumbarius. Raii. syn. Goshawk. Will. orn. 

 L'Autour. Buff. ois. l. p. 230. pi 12. (Young.) PL EnL 



418. (full grown.) 



Size similar to that of the Jerfalcon: general 

 length nearly two feet : colour above deep brown, 

 beneath white, marked with numerous transverse 

 blackish bars ; but, in the younger or less advanced 

 specimens, with oblong or lengthened spots : the 

 feathers on the thighs, as in most other Falcons, 

 are long and large, and the tail, which considerably 

 exceeds the length of the wings when closed, is of 

 a brownish ash-colour, with five moderately broad, 

 distant, dusky bars : the bill is blueish, the legs 

 yellow, and the feet furnished with very strong 

 claws, particularly on the back toe. The whole 

 bird is of an elegant form, and by the old Falconers 

 was considered as the chief of the short-winged 

 Hawks, or such whose wings when closed do not 



