GOSHAWK. 
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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 larg’ely to our 
nig-htly repose ; their quills, so common in use for transmitting- our 
thoug-hts 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 palumharius^ Bechstein.) 
ADULT. 
*Falcopalumbarms,Lmrz.Syst. l.p. 130. — Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 269. sp.30. — Lath. Ind. 
Orn. 1. p. 29. sp. 65. — Mei^er, 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. — Ib. 
8vo. p. 91. — L’Autour, Bujf. Ois. 1. p. 130. — Ib. pi. Enl. 418. — Temni. Man. 
d’Orn. 1. p. 55. 2d edit. — Hunderhabicht, Beclist. Tasschenb. Deut. 1. p. 28. 
— Goshawk, Br. Zool. 1. No. 52. t. 24. — Arct. Zool. 2. No. 99. — Lath. Syn. 1. 
p. 5S.—Ih. Supp. p. Id.—Mont. Orn. Diet Ib. Alhin, 2. t. 8. — 
Lewins 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.~Lat/o Ind. Orn. 1. p. 29. sp. 66. — L’Autnur 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.* 
