290 BLACK HAWK. 



parts of the island, and is found in Russia and Siberia. 

 Buffon, who reared two young birds of this kind, a male and 

 female, observes, that " the goshawk, before it has shed its 

 feathers, that is, in its first year, is marked on the breast and 

 belly with longitudinal brown spots ; but after it has had two 

 moultings they disappear, and their place is occupied by 

 transverse waving bars, which continue during the rest of its 

 life ; '"' he also takes notice, that though the male was much 

 smaller than the female, it was fiercer and more vicious. 



Mr Pennant informs us that the goshawk is used by the 

 Emperor of China in his sporting excursions, when he is 

 usually attended by his grand falconer and a thousand of 

 inferior rank. Every bird has a silver plate fastened to its 

 foot, with the name of the falconer who has charge of it, that, 

 in case it should be lost, it may be restored to the proper 

 person ; but, if he should not be found, the bird is delivered 

 to another officer, called " the guardian of lost birds," who, to 

 make his situation known, erects his standard in a conspicuous 

 place among the army of hunters. The same writer informs 

 us, that he examined, in the Leverian Museum, a specimen 

 of the goshawk which came from America, and which was 

 superior in size to the European. He adds, "they are- the best 

 of all hawks for falconry." * 



BLACK HAWK. {Falco Sancti Johannis ?) 



PLATE LIIL— Fig. 1. 



Lath. Lnd. Om. p. 34, No. 74. — Chocolate-coloured Falcon, Penn. Arct. Zool. 



No. 94. 



BUTEO SANCTI JOHANNIS ?— Bonaparte. 

 Falco (sub-genus Buteo) Sancti Johannis, Bonap. Synop. p. 32. 



This, and the other two figures on the same plate, are 

 reduced from the large drawings, which were taken of the 

 exact size of nature, to one half their dimensions. I regret 



* Arctic Zoology, p. 204. 



