66 FALCONID A. 
lore, cheeks, and ear-coverts greyish brown, forming an 
elongated dark patch on the side of the head; the legs 
and toes yellow ; the claws black. 
Young birds have the beak, cere, and eyes nearly similar 
to those of the old birds; the top of the head, nape, and 
ear-coverts, ferruginous white, each feather darker in the 
middle ; back, wings, and upper tail-coverts, brown, mar- 
gined with buff; upper surface of the tail-feathers with five 
bands of dark brown and four bands of lighter brown, the 
ends of all the feathers white ; wing-primaries dark brown, 
barred with two shades of brown on the inner webs; the 
chin, throat, breast, and belly, greyish white, each feather 
with a central elongated patch of dark brown ; thighs and 
under tail-coverts with a dark brown longitudinal streak, 
instead of a broad patch ; under surface of the wings grey- 
ish white, with transverse dusky bars; under surface of 
the tail-feathers greyish white, with five darker greyish 
brown transverse bars, the tips of all the feathers white ; 
legs and toes yellow brown; the claws black, those of 
the inner toe considerably larger than those of the outer. 
Bewick, in his excellent work on British Birds, having 
figured an adult Goshawk, a young bird was chosen for 
the illustration here given. 
