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PALCO PALUMBARIUS. 
GOSHAWK. 
Cere black, edged with yellow ; legs yel- 
low ; body brown ; tail feathers with pale 
bands ; eyebrows white. 
Falco Palumbarius, Lin. Gme. 
L'Autour, Buffon. 
Goshawk, Will. Pen. Lath. Bew. Shaw, 
Mont. 
Gentil Falcon, Pennant. 
The length of this bird is from twenty- 
two inches to two feet. Its weight about 
three pounds. 
This species is very rare in England, but 
is said not to be uncommon in Scotland, 
w r here it builds in trees, and lays four white 
eggs. 
They are subject to variations in the mark- 
ings of their plumage; but their size and 
elegant slender shape at once distinguish 
them from the rest of their species. Buffon 
informs us that he kept a pair of these birds. 
The female was at least a third larger than 
