The Gojhawk Accipiter Palumbarius.'
Numb. VIII.
IT is fomewhat bigger than the common Buzzard:
its Head, Neck, Back, and upper Side of the Wings of
a dark, dusky Brown or Buzzard Colour: The whole
Breaft and Belly white with tranfverfe black Lines {landing
very thick; the Thighs in the Cock are covered
with rediih Feathers having black Lines in the Middle
down the Shaft; the Legs and Feet are yellow; the Talons
black.
The Beak blewifh, the Sear of a yellowiih Green; the
Wings when clofed fall Ihort of the End of the Train,
by which Note alone, and its Bignefs, it is fufficiently di-
ftinguilhed from all other Hawks,
The Train is of a dun Colour, with black Bars {landing
at a good Diftance from each- other.
It takes not only Partridges and Pheafants, but alfo
o-reater Fowls, as Geeje and Cranes, fometimes alfo it
catches Conies.
