HAWK. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Falco palumbarius. F. cera nigra, margine pedibusque flavis, 
corpore fusco, rectricibus fasciis pallidis, 
superciliis albis. Linn. Syst.Nat. Gmel. 1. 
p. 269. 
Cere black, legs yellow, body brown, tail 
feathers crossed with pale bands, eye- 
brows white. 
Accipiter palumbarius. Aldr. Orn. 1. 
p. 342. pi. 343. 
Goshawk. . . . Buff. Birds, v. 1. p. 184. pi. 12. Penn. 
Brit. Zool. v. 1. p. 184. pi. 24. Penn. 
Arct. Zool. v. 2. p. 204. no. 99. Allin. 
Av. 2. p. 8. t. 8. Will. Orn. p. 85. t. 3. 5. 
Bew. Birds, p. 23. 
When falconry was in fashion, the goshawk 
ranked high for its spirit in the field. It is larger 
in size, but of a more elegant and slender make, than 
the common buzzard. The bill is blue with a black 
tip ; the cere of a yellowish green. (Linnaeus says 
black.) On the side of the neck is a bed of broken 
white ; the head and parts above are of a deep 
brown ; the breast and belly white, marked with 
many transverse black and white bars ; the ash- 
coloured tail is marked with four or five dusky bars. 
