Our figure was coloured from a very fine fpecimen, com* 
municated by Mr. Bullock, who received it from a gentle- 
man reOdent near Harwich, Vv^ho is particularly converfant with 
the hawk tribe j he took this with feveral others from the 
neft, and has kept them feveral years ; our bird is in the laft 
flate previous to its arriving at the adult plumage. In a 
future number will be given a figure of the bird iii 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 defi:ru6tive ; Mr. Montague 
fays J 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 Lincolnlhire,. 
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 o£ 
our cliffs ; the neft is formed of flicks and dry fea-weed ; 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, 
