GOSHAWK. 



221 



In few countries do the value of Geese appear to be fully appreciated, 

 for with proper management, few animals are of greater worth. If we 

 consider that these birds not only afford us a wholesome but a delicate 

 food ; their smaller feathers and down contribute so largely to our 

 nightly repose ; their quills, so common in use for transmitting our 

 thoughts to the present and future ages, we may truly estimate their 

 intrinsic value as little inferior to the sheep ; for the wool of the Goose 

 is equally valuable, and the flesh as eagerly sought after. Upon the 

 whole, therefore, a Goose is a highly profitable animal, little inferior to 

 that of a sheep, in certain situations ; and thousands are annually bred 

 where that animal could not exist. If the produce of the feathers, 

 plucked three times a year, and the quills twice, and that upon an 

 average each Goose produces six or seven young for the market 

 annually, are considered, how much short they are of the profit yielded 

 by an ewe in the same time, we shall leave to the calculation of the 

 agriculturist. 



In most parts of the kingdom, the Goose is an appendage to the 

 farm-yard, and being a hardy bird, and subject to few distempers, 

 requires no care, and is neither fed with hay nor corn, consequently 

 her value is clear profit. 



In the west of England, where geese are plentiful, but not associated 

 into large flocks, they are neither cultivated nor managed with advan- 

 tage : for though in some parts of Devonshire the poorest persons 

 would deem themselves poor indeed, that could not sleep upon a feather 

 bed ; yet it is not the custom in that county to extend a profit upon 

 these birds, by shearing or plucking their feathers, although double 

 the value of the wool of the common sheep.* 



GORCOCK.— A name for the Moor fowl. 



GOR CROW. — A name for the common Crow. 



GOSHAWK (Astur palumbarius, Bechstein.) 



ADULT. 



*Falco palumbarius, Linn. Syst. l.p. 130.— Gmel. Syst.l. p. 269. sp.30. — Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 1. p. 29. sp. 65. — Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. p. 49 Faun. Suec. No. 



67. Raii, Syn. p. 18. 1 Will. p. 5. t. 3. and 5.— Astur, Briss. 1. p. 317 lb. 



8vo. p. 91.— L'Autour, Buff. Ois. 1. p. 130._ft>. pi. Enl. 418 Temm. Man. 



d'Orn. 1. p. 55. 2d edit. — Hunderhabicht, Bechst. Tasschenb. Deut. 1. p. 28. 

 —Goshawk, Br. Zool. 1. No. 52. t. 24.— Arct. Zool. 2. No. 99.— Lath. Syn. 1. 



p. 58.— Ib. Supp. p. 16.— Mont. Orn. Diet lb. Supp.— Albin, 2. t. 8.— 



Lewin's Br. Birds, 1. t. 9.— Wale. Syn. 1. t. 9.— Bewick's Br. Birds, 1. p. 23. 

 — Shaw's Zool. 7. p. 118. — Low's Faun. Oread, p. 36. 



YOUNG. 



Falco Gallinarius, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 266. sp. 73.— Falco gentilis, Gmel. p. 270. 

 sp. 13. -Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. p. 29. sp. 66.— L'Autour sors, Buff. pi. Enl. pi, 

 461. and 423. — Gentil Falcon, Mont. Diet. — Greater Buzzard, Lath. Syn. 1. 

 p. 49 — Selby, pi. 12. and 12.* p. 31.* 



