WHITE-TAILED EAGLE— GOSHAWK, 159 
bird, on January 9th, 1893 5 ^^^^ the other, some forty 
years before. 
Mr. V. Willett has also furnished us with information of 
one killed on St. Catherine's Down in the Isle of Wight 
some years back. 
[Genus— 
Astur palumbarius. — Goshawk. 
We do not think there is sufficient evidence to include 
this bird in our list. 
Hawker's "Diary" for March, 18 19, written at Long- 
parish, contains the following entry : — " After killing a 
wood-pigeon out of a flock, I knocked down an immense 
goshawk, which I killed by means of lying down in the 
young wood, over which he had been hovering for several 
evenings." It would seem that the writer called the 
peregrine by this name, for on December 24th, 181 3, 
he mentions shooting at a goshawk among the cliffs near 
Swanage, whereas he never mentions the peregrine in his 
diary under its proper name ; and Yarrell agrees that this 
mistake was frequently made by unscientific writers. 
Wise ^ says that sometimes " a stray bird " of this 
species is killed in the Forest, but Mr. Corbin and other 
naturalists living on the spot consider that if the bird 
occurred in this neighbourhood it was probably escaped 
from some hawking party. 
Mr. Corbin remembers that many years ago, the police 
used to be sent round asking for news of escaped birds. 
Dr. Cowper 2 mentions a pair that remained on the 
^ " New Forest." " Hants Court Guide." 
