222 GRASSHOPPER LARK. 



This is a large species, superior in size to the buzzard; length 

 twenty-two inches or more ; the bill is blue, tip black ; cere yellowish 

 green ; irides yellow. 



The head, hind part of the neck, back, and wings, deep brown ; over 

 the eye is a white line, and a broken patch of the same colour on the 

 side of the neck ; the breast and belly marked with numerous trans- 

 verse bars of black and white ; the tail is long, and ash coloured, with 

 four or five dusky bars ; legs yellow ; claws black. 



The Goshawk is rarely found in England, but is not uncommon in 

 the wild and mountainous parts of Scotland, where it is known to 

 breed in the forest of Rothemurchus, and on the woody banks of the 

 Dee. They are said to be numerous in the Orkney islands, where 

 they breed in the rocks and sea cliffs. They more generally build 

 however in lofty fir trees, and lay from two to four eggs, of a bluish 

 white, marked with streaks and spots of reddish brown. Its flight is 

 described to be very rapid, generally low, and it strikes its prey on the 

 wing, near the ground, being incapable of mounting. If its prey 

 take refuge, it will wait patiently on a tree, or stone, until the game, 

 pressed by hunger, is induced to move ; and as this hawk is capable of 

 great abstinence, it generally succeeds in taking it. Colonel Thornton 

 informs us, that he flew one at a pheasant, which got into cover, and 

 the hawk was lost ; at ten o'clock next morning the falconer found 

 her, and just as he caught her the pheasant ran and rose. According 

 to Meyer, it will prey on its own young, but its principal food is wild 

 ducks, hares, and rabbits. In the young, the head, neck, and belly, are 

 of a rufous colour, with long brown spots, and tips of the tail white. 

 In this plumage they have been termed Gentil Falcons. In the days 

 of falconry, they were held in high repute for hunting cranes, geese, 

 and the larger sorts of game, and were considered by falconers, the 

 best and most courageous of the short-winged hawks. 



The Goshawk is common in France, Germany, and Russia ; it is also 

 found in America, but is rare in Holland. 



GOUD SPINK.— A name for the Goldfinch. 



GOURDER.— A name for the Petrel. 



GOWK. — A name for the Cuckoo. 



GR ALLiE (LiNNiEUS.) — The Linnsean order of Wading Birds. 



GRALLATORES (III iger.)— Wading Birds. 



GRASSHOPPER LARK.— A name for the Grasshopper Warbler. 



GRASSHOPPER WARBLER (Curruca Locustella, Fleming.) 



* Sylvia locustella, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 515. sp. 25. — Curruca locustella, Flem. 

 p. 69. — Locustella avicula, Raii, Syn. p. 70. A. 7 Will. p. 151 L'Alouette 



