practical and excellent work, entitled ' Falconry, its 

 Claims, History, and Practice' (London, 1859), that I 

 should find it difficult to avoid " cribbing " in dilating 

 upon this aspect of the Gos-Hawk's character. The 

 nests of this bird that I have seen were large, rather 

 shallow structures, placed on the lateral boughs of coni- 

 ferous trees, at a considerable height from the ground, 

 and composed of sticks and twigs ; the eggs, three or 

 foiir in number, are of a greenish white. My friend 

 Col. E. Delme Radcliffe, a past master in Falconry and 

 all matters relating to the habits of raptorial birds, 

 assures me that in Germany the Gos-Hawks take many 

 Owls, and I have always found my trained birds ready 

 and eager to fly at Barn-Owls when they had a chance 

 of doing so ; on one occasion my falconer found a Tawny 

 Owl in the clutches of one of the Gos-Hawks at her 

 perch in our flower-garden, and was in time to liberate 

 the incautious hooter almost uninjured ; but, as I have 

 already said, hardly any flying or running animal that 

 it can master comes amiss to this Hawk, and the list of 

 captures at various times by trained Gos-Hawks in my 

 possession includes hares, rabbits, rats, squirrels, stoats, 

 weasels, a cat. Owls, Blackbirds, Thrushes, Wood-Pigeons, 

 Pheasants, Waterhens, and Wild Ducks. In one nest 

 of this species in Old Castile we found a skull of a young- 

 Kestrel probably taken from its nursery, and I have 

 heard of instances in which young Honey-Buzzards have 

 suffered a similar fate. I have met with this species 

 frequently in the Guadarramas, less often in Andalucia, 

 and in Switzerland and Rhenish Prussia during the 

 summer months, and in the island of Sardinia and 



