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Le Vaillant, the long-legged Falcon of Shaw. It has the bulk 

 of a pigeon, but is larger. The female is barred only from 

 the abdomen downward. 



Our Accipiter Delafonsii was caught by the crew of Captain 

 Delafons' ship in the strait between Bileton and Borneo. 

 Major Hamilton Smith has dedicated the species, as neAV, to his 

 friend Captain Delafons. It seems allied to Accipiter torquatus. 

 It is thirteen inches long, bill black, dentated cere small, of a 

 dirty white colour, head one inch long ; a streak of mottled 

 white passes from the forehead to the nape ; cheeks ashy ochre, 

 throat white, neck long, and slender behind, darkish sepia in 

 front, and down the throat white mottled with regular oblique 

 rows of rufous drop-like spots gradually assuming the form of 

 bars toward the abdomen ; vent white ; thigh feathers long, 

 loose, white, crossed with rufous streaks; the mantle white, 

 •with broad sepia bars nearly concealing the white ; wings short, 

 first primary very short, fourth the longest, all entirely sepia, 

 paler at the edge, inside of the wings whitish-gray transversely 

 barred with ashy sepia. In the tail twelve feathers equal ashy, 

 with three dark broad bars above, pale ash beneath, with six 

 narrow bars, the last being the broadest j legs yellow, faintly 

 aculeated ; claws black. 



The Pigeon-Hawk of America, is, as it name imports, re- 

 markable for the continual war which he wages with pigeons 

 and doves, and for nothing else. This bird is found near 

 Hudson's Bay, and through all North America. 



The Goshawk is larger and stronger, as we have said, than 

 the common hawk. It remains all the year in France, and is 

 also common in Germany, Russia, Switzerland, and Ireland, 

 but more rare in England and Holland. It is also found in 

 Asia from Kamschatka to Persia, in Africa, in Barbary, and 

 in North America. It inhabits, by preference, forests of fir- 

 trees, and those which are situated on the mountains. Young- 

 pigeons, and other small fowl, leverets, squirrels, mice, and 

 moles constitute its principal food. This bird, whose cry is 



