ee Ass Tee CohiO. Ne 
Fhe flight account which we are enabled to eive of this bird, wilh 
not enable us to fay whether it is the fame with the preceding fpecies, 
F, Palumbarius, Ind. Orz. i. p. 29 65. y 
Avtour commun, Daud. Orn. ii. p. 71. 39. 
Gothawk, Gez. Sym. i. p. 58.2. Sup. p. 16. 
REEDS in Scotland: the young one is very different from the 
adult, and it is not at all clear that the Fa/con Gentic of Br. 
Zool. N° 50, is not the Gofoawk in its firft feathers. In Germany, it 
is not an uncommon fpecies in the forefts, where it is ftationary, 
_ preying on various kinds of large and fmall game; among others 
geefe, hence perhaps has arifen the name of Goofe Hawk or Gofhawk: 
faid to be found in numbers on the 4zores iflands, and by fome fup- 
pofed to have given a name thereto, as azor in the Spanifh tongue: 
fignifies a Gofhawk. The American {pecies weighs three pounds and 
a quarter, and meafures twenty-one inches in length. 
Var. A. Der Weiffe Stockfalke, Allg. U. d. Voz. Zufafs. S. 662.—Decouver. Ruff 
3. Pp. 303. 
Falco Lathami, Autour blanc, Daudinx. Ora. ii. p. 73.39. Var. C. 
A Large white variety, mottled with brown and yellow, is fome- 
‘times found about the Uralian mountains, and the eaft part of 
Siberia; and both in Germany as well as Kamt/chatka individuals 
are found of a pure white, without mixture; one of thefe, with a 
grey tinge on the back, was fhot in TAuringia, in the autumn, 
L’autour huppé, Lewaill. Oi 1. p. 114. pl. 26.—Daxdin. Orn, ii. p. 77. xlv. 
Aigle moyen de la Guiane, Evxcycl. Meth. (Mauduit.) 
HIS and the Common Gofhawk, according to M. Levaillant, are 
the only two Gofhawks knowa: the prefent one is one third 
bigger than our European fpecies ; and independant of the difference 
of 
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GOSHAWK. 
Var. B. 
DeEscriPTion.. 
38. 
CRESTED : 
GOSHAWK. 
DiscRIPTION. 
