48 CLASS AVES. 



Lfjng-beaked Eagle. F. hamatus, Illiger, pi. col. Gl. 

 231 Jun. 



Leacl-coloured, quills black ; base of tail, and lower 

 tail coverts, white. 



To this sub-genus may be added, as a section, the 

 Asturina of Vieillot, peculiar for its lunate nostrils, 

 short slender tarsi, and long claws. 



Ashy Falcon. Asturina cinerea, Vieil. Gal. t, 20. 



Ashy-blue, beneath white striped ; tail with two 

 black bands and white tips, Guiana. Length fifteen 

 inches. 



F. fuscuSy Lath. Miller, Illust. t. 13. is perhaps of 

 this section. 



The Hawks, Autours, Cuv. (Astur, Bechstein. D^eda- 

 LioN, Savig.) 



Which form the second division of ignoble birds, 

 have, hke the three last tribes of eagles, the wings 

 shorter than the tail ; but their beak bends from its 

 base, as in all the following. 



They are more particularly called Goshawks, which 

 have the tarsi shielded, and rather short, the genus 

 Astur, of Vigors. 



The Common Goshawk, (F. palumbarius, Enl. 418, and 

 461, and the young F. gallinarius, Enl. 425, and Frisch, 

 t. 02; probably also the F. gyrfalco and F. gentilis of Gm., 

 80 ill-deternnined are the species in modern works,) 



Is the only species of this country. It is brown, 

 with whitish eyelids ; white underneath, barred across 

 with brown in the adult ; dotted when young ; five 

 browner bands on the tail. It equals the gerfalcon 



