106 FALCON. 



41— GOSHAWK. 



Falco palumbaTius, Ind, Om. i. p. 29. Ltn^ 1. 130. Got. Lin. i. 269. Fn. Suet. No, 67. 



Rail Spi. p. 18. i. Will. p. 51. t. 3. & 5. Kleiti. Av. p. 50. ii, Frisch. t. 81. 82. 



George. 164. Geri«. Om. i. t. 21. 22. Daud. p. 71. Jrf. vol. i. p. 90. pi. 2. Sceleton. 



Beckst. Dents, n. 268. 5Aaw)'* Zool. vii. p. 118. pi. 20. Tem. Man^ d'Orn. p. 30. 



Id.ed.2. p. 53. 

 Astur, £rw. i. 317. Id. 8vo. 91. Cet. uc. Sard. 48. Zinn. Uov. 1. 14. f. 77. Btif. i. 230. 



pi. 12 PI. enl. 418. 461. Foy. en. Barb. i. 266. 

 Epervier raye, Voy.d^Azara'm. No. 29. van? 

 Grosser gepfeilter Falck, Frisch. i. 82. Falck. It. iii. t. 21. 

 Taubeiihabifht, Naturf. viii. s. 54. 

 Goshawk, Gen. 5yn. i. p. 58. Id. Sup. p. 16. Br. Zool. No. 52. pi. 24. Id. ed. 1812. 



i. p. 225. pi. 24 Arct. Zool. ii. No. 99. Bewick, pi. p. 23. Lewin's Birds i. pi. 



9. Id. Eggs.Y>\.u.i'.2. ^/6. ii.pl. 8. Walcot Syn\.^\.9. Wood's Zoogr.l p. 

 395. pi. 17. Orrt. Diet. Sf Svp. Amer. Om. vi. pi. bl.fig. 3. Ash-coloured, or black- 

 capped hawk. 



LARGER than the common buzzard, but of a more slender 

 make; length 22 in.; weight 3$ pounds; bill blue, tip black ; cere 

 greenish ; irides yellow ; over the eye a white line ; on the side of the 

 neck a bed of broken white ; head and upper part of the body deep 

 brown; breast and under parts crossed with numerous black and 

 white bars ; tail cinereous, long, with four or five dusky bars ; the 

 wmgs reach three parts of the way on the tail ; legs yellow ; claws 

 black. 



In some specimens, the thighs have reddish feathers, marked 

 >vith a black line down the shafts, and in those of the breast a black 

 circular line near the tip, parallel to the edge, and in others the shafts 

 and middle of the feathers are black. 



The female is larger than the male, and paler in colour, marked 

 beneath with oval, dusky black ST^'>ts. 



