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in size, but not in ccurage, falling always obliquely 

 on its prey. It is nevertheless used in falconry for 

 weaker game. It is common in all our hills and low 

 mountains. 



The ash-coloured Hawk. F. atricapillus, Wilson, 

 is the very old specimen of tliis bird. 



Ray's Hoick. Astur Rati, Vigors. 



Above, ash-coloured ; beneath white, varied with 

 brown ; tail pale gray, beneath whitish, banded with 

 brown. New Holland. Mus. Lin. Soc. Length 

 sixteen inches. 



Banded Hawk. Astur fasciahis. Vigors. 



Above fuscous brown ; beneath white, with crowded 

 brown bands; thighs red, banded. Length of the 

 male seventeen, of female nineteen inches. New Hol- 

 land. A. approxtmans, Vigoi-s, is perhaps the young. 



Broad-ivmged Hairk. F. Fenmi/lvafizcus, Wilson, 

 O. A. t. 54. f. 1. F. latissi?nus, Ord. 



Dark brown ; head streaked with whitish ; beneath 

 white, thickly spotted on the breast with brown 

 arrow-heads ; tail short, with two bars of white, and 

 tipt with whitish ; cera and feet yellow. North 

 America. Rare. 



Among the foreign Goshawks may be noticed that 

 of New Holland, White Eagle, Lath. (F. Nova: Hol- 

 landiw, Gmcl), and jP. albus of Shaw, White's Jour. t. 

 at p. 200, which is often altogether as white as snow ; 

 but it seems to bo a variety of a bird of that country ; 

 ashy above, white underneath, with slight indications 

 of gray in waves. 



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