430 Mr. R. Swinhoe's Ornithological Notes made at Chefoo. 
7. Goshawk. Asturpalumbarius (L.). 
Mr. Campbell, of the lighthouse, brought me on the 10th 
October a yearling of this species which he had shot about his 
premises the day before. The Hawk carried off one of his 
chickens. He shot it and redeemed his property, but in a 
lifeless state. I did not at the time know the undress of the 
Goshawk, and was puzzled about the species, thinking that I 
had got a large female of our Formosan Astur virgatus. The 
specimen before me had a brownish upper dress, with broad 
bands to its tail, and a small pointed occipital crest. Its bill 
was blackish on the culmen, bluish at the base. Cere and 
round eye greenish; rictus yellow; iris pale yellow. Legs 
and feet greenish yellow ; claws black. When I showed this 
Hawk the other day to Mr. R. B. Sharpe, he recognized it 
at once as the immature of the Goshawk, and said he had 
seen small crests in European specimens. I obtained the 
Goshawk before at Pekin in complete plumage (see P. Z. S. 
1871, p. 341). 
8. Sparrow-Hawk. Accipiter nisus (L.). 
A female Sparrow-Hawk was brought to me on the wrist 
by a native. He was training it for hawking. 
9. Stevenson's Hawk. Accipiter stevensoni, Gurney. 
Throughout May in my country rambles I would fre¬ 
quently meet natives carrying Hawks on their wrists. This 
species was in the greatest request. How the natives caught 
these Hawks I do not know; but the birds they were training 
were invariably males more or less adult. They did not know 
the female. I only once came upon a man actually engaged 
in hawking. His Hawk had captured two small birds (Locus- 
tella lanceolata); and the owner seemed very proud of the feat 
accomplished by his “ eleve.” He had a cap for his bird 
surmounted by a crest of feathers, much like the “ Falcon's 
hood " used in Europe, and a bell on the tail at its base, with 
a few strips of red and blue cloth pendent. When the bird 
shook or flew the bell tinkled. An adult male measured 10 
inches in length. Wing 6’6, the tip of the main quills extend¬ 
ing 1*4 beyond the tips of the tertiaries, and 2T short of the 
