BROAD-WINGED HAWK. 
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Mr Pennant informs us, that the goshawk is used hy 
Hinperor of China in his sporting excursions, when 
^ usually attended hy his grand falconer, and a 
^®Usand of inferior rank. Every bird has a silver 
fastened to its foot, with' the name of the falconer 
j. "0 has the charge of it, that, in case it should be lost, 
, ttiay be restored to the proper person ; but, if he 
,^«ld not be found, the bird is delivered to another 
bj called the guardian of lost birds, w'ho, to make 
t^tualion known, erects his standard in a conspicu- 
inf among the army of hunters. The same writer 
“‘»>Tnsus, that he exmnined, in the Leverian Museum, 
specimen of the goshawk which came from America, 
art I was superior in size to the European. lie 
“ they are the best of aU hawks for falconry.” * 
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WILSON. — BROAD-WINGED . 
WILSON, PLATE LIV, FIG. I. 
hawk was shot on the 6th of May, in Mr Bar- 
^Ba’s woods, near the Schuylkill, and was afterw'ards 
‘'“Rented to Mr Peale, in whose collection it now 
It was perched on the dead limb of a high 
feeding on something, which was afterwards found 
a 1 meadow mouse. On my approach, it uttered 
wi'^^'oiug kind of whistle, and flew off to another tree, 
here 1 followed and shot it. Its great breadth of 
?''*dth of the secondaries, and also of its head and 
y>. 'rhen compared with its length, sri'uok me as 
ha j ''^•■'ties. It seemed a remarkably strong-built bird, 
r^^dsomely marked, and was altogether unknown to 
a Mr Bartram, who examined it very attentively, 
«*®lared he had never before seen such a hawk. On 
hM.'‘^‘®''Ooon of the next day, I observed another, pro- 
its mate or companion, and certainly one of the 
* Arct. Zool. p. 204. 
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