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the faleoner found her, and just as he had lifted her, the 
Pheasant ran and rose.” 
As the flight of the Goshawk is low, and it takes its 
prey near the ground, the females were flown at hares and 
rabbits: the males, which are much smaller, were flown at 
partridges. 
The Goshawk is a rare species in the South of England, 
and the few that are used for hawking are obtained from 
the Continent. Colonel Thornton, who kept them con- 
stantly in Yorkshire, procured some of his specimens from 
Scotland. Dr. Moore, in his catalogue of the birds of 
Devonshire, says that it is found occasionally on Dartmoor; 
but I can find no record of its appearance farther west in 
England, nor any notice of it in Ireland. A fine adult 
male was trapped by a gamekeeper in Suffolk m March 
1833; and Mr. Doubleday of Epping has sent me word 
that he received a young bird from Norfolk in the spring 
of the same year. Mr. Selby mentions that he had never 
seen a recent specimen south of the Tweed; but states 
that it is known to breed in the forest of Rothiemurcus, 
and on the wooded banks of the Dee. Mr. Low says 
that this species is pretty frequent in Orkney; but as 
he speaks of it in connexion with sea-beaten rocks with- 
out shelter or woods, is there not reason to suspect that 
Mr. Low was mistaken, and that the birds he saw were 
Peregrine Falcons,—the more so as several recent visitors 
to these northern islands have observed Peregrines, but 
no Goshawks ¢ 
Since the publication of the former edition of this work, 
a Goshawk killed near Dalkeith is noticed by Sir W. Jar- 
dine, Bart. as the only Scotch specimen he had seen in a 
fresh state. Three examples were killed in Northumber- 
land during the winter of 1841, and two specimens in the 
county of Norfolk since that time. 
