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ASTUR PA LUMBAR IUS.
Goshawk.
Falco gentilis, Linn. Faun. Suec., p. 20.
palumbamik, Linn. Faun. Suec., p. 23.
gallinarius, Gmel. edit. Linn. Syst. Nat., tom. i. p. 266.
—— albescens, Bodd. Tab. PI. Enl., p. 25.
Astur palumbarius, Bechst. Taschenb. Fog. Deutschl., tom. ii. p. 268.
—— gallinanm, Brehm, Yög. Deutschl., tom. i. pi 83.
Acctpiter astur, Pall Zoog. Rosso-Asiat., tom. i. p. 367, tab. 11.
pahimbaritts, Jenyns, Man. Brit. Vert. Anim., p. 85,
Buteo palumbarius, Flem. Hist. Brit. Anim., p. 54.
Dadalion palumbarius,'Savig. Obs. sur le Syst. des Ois. d’Egypte, p. 94.
my instances on record o f the breeding and capture o f this truly noble species o f Hawk in the midland
tern counties of Englaud and in Scotland, preclude its being regarded as one o f our rarer birds; at
T h
and eastern
the same time
state o f nature ? A pair o r moi
establish themselves in a suitabl
rendered futile by their destructi
the great nurseries of France, C
According to M r. Rodd, the G
that it “ cannot be include
old authors, to have been
bred regularly in the for
ow difficult would it be to say with certainty when and where it may be
if fortunate enough to escape the vigilance of the keeper, may this year
ocality, breed, and rear their young; the next, a similar attempt would be
■ and a soinewhat lengthened period may elapse before others arrive from
many, and Scandinavia,
e Goshawk has not been killed in Cornwall; and the late Mr. Thompson informs us
ii the Irish fauna with c e rta in ty ;” yet it would seem, from the writings o f some
rnierly common in the northern part of that country. In Scotland it formerly
of Darnaway, and in that o f Glenmore, near Grantown, on the Spey; and
; may still do so. In ‘The Ib is ’ for 1865, Mr. A. G. More s a y s M r . Tottenham Lee states,
i Dr. Morris’s * N aturalist' for 1853, that a pair once took possession o f a Raven’s nest in Roxburghshire,
nd that he had beard of another nest in the same county. Mr. Robert Gray, o f Glasgow, who knew
I r. Lee, tells me that he was perfectly familiar with birds of prey, and was not likely to moke a mistake as
° “ Maeglllivray appears to have met with the Goshawk occasionally among the Grampians ; and Montagu
motes Colonel Thornton as having obtained a young* one from near the Spey, and as having seen some
yries in the forest of Glenmore and Rotliiemurckus. Mr. W. Dunbar also writes that, when he was a boy,
t • used to breed regularly in the woods of Castle Grant, and in Abemethy and Dulnanc forests.’ ” |
O t h e r instances o f i t s occurrence in Britain hare been mentioned by writers on nor native birds, many of which
,re probably authentic. The Rev. F. O. Morris records one in Yorkshire, two in Suffolk, one in Norfolk, four
n Northumberland, and one In Surrey. Dr. Moore states that it has been occasionally found on Dartmoor,
u Devonshire ¿ « n d Mr. Stevenson informs us. in his ’ B irds o f Norfolk,’ that it appears occasionally ... that
,llnty both in u r i n g and autumn, but at uncertain intervals, and that It has of late years become more scarce
•han formerly ; and he subjoins i
I have myself had the pleasure
seen ; one o f these was killed
of Sir S. Morton Peto, Bart.; th
29th o f March, 1864, had been
The Suffolk bird was killed while I
diatelv after it was shot. It was a
narkings of the
ireviously ; and tf
lecome shy, but e
voods and flying »
lowii upon a ben
notber hens brin.
& wall: once to
rilie fini» llirfl has
uai u» ouhk; seven individuals that had been killed thereii
of handling in the flesh two o f the finest specimens of this bird I have ever
in the 24th o f January, 1859, a t Somerleyton, in Suffolk," by a keeper
otlwr which was submitted to my inspection by M r. B. Leadbeater on the
shot at Normanby Park, Brigg, Lincolnshire, on the 24th o f that month,
tt a visit to Sir Morton Peto, and was placed in my hands imme-
e o f the previous year, ju st commencing to change its feathers,
teen ounces, and, although an immature example", the lengthened lanceolate
reatly pleased me. It had been seen in the neighbourhood for some time
had more than once shot a t and slightly wounded i t; notwithstanding, it did not
iegree o f intrepidity very unusual among birds of prey, almost daily leaving the
• *p the butt* to the farm steadings, just overtopping the buildings, and ¡jouncing
I as opiwrtMuity served—the great scurry, consternation, and cackling of the
housewife to the door ju s t in time to see one o f her feathered charges taken over
. wj-s the foray made; for the keeper was in waiting and shot the culprit.
js.u. . •>...! I KpIiavp. is still a t Somerlevton Hall, now the property of