Our figure was coloured from a very fine fpecimen, com- 

 municated by Mr. Bullock, who received it from a gentle- 

 man refident near Harwich, who is particularly converfant with 

 the hawk tribe ; he took this with feveral others from the 

 neft, and has kept them feveral years ; our bird is in the lafl 

 ftate previous to its arriving at the adult plumage. In a 

 future number will be given a figure of the bird in its higheft 

 ftate of adult plumage. 



Thefe birds frequent the rocky parts of our coafts, parti- 

 cularly thofe fpots reforted to by the razor-bill and its affinities, 

 among which they are very deftructive ; Mr. Montague 

 fays, " We took three young birds from a high cliff, on the 

 coaft of Carmarthenfhire ; by the neft lay above a dozen rooks, 

 crows, and gulls the young birds are very fond of larks, 

 which, when given them, whether dead or alive, they inva- 

 riably feize by the neck with one claw, and ufually pluck 

 them previous to devouring. It is fometimes found in the 

 interior of this country at a great diftance from the fea : our 

 friend Mr. Samuel Turner, of Caftor, in Lincolnfhire, 

 once took one from out of a fox-trap placed in a warren in his 

 neighbourhood. 



This fpecies ufually builds in the moft inacceflible parts of 

 our cliffs ; the neft is formed of fticks and dry fea-weed j we 

 do not remember to have feen the eggs. 



This bird was formerly much ufed in falcony, and being^a 

 bold and powerful bird was held in great efteem ; it was 

 principally employed for the taking of ducks and other water 

 fowl, from which circumftance it attained the name of Duck 

 Hawk. 



