Falco palumbarius, Lin fyjl. i. p. 130. N° 30.
L ’Autour, Brif. orn. i. p. 317. N° 3.
------------- Buf - “/• ». P- 230. t. 12.— PI. enl. 418, 461.
Groffe gefperberte falck; grofle gepfeilte falck, Fri/cb. t. 8t, 82.
Accipiter palumbarius, RailJyn. p. 18. N° z.
Goihawk, Will. orn. p. 85. t. 3, 5.—Br. Zool. 1. N° 32.
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Br. Mu/. Lev. Muf.
f j E N G T H one foot ten inches and a quarter: in fize it is
larger, but more flender in fhape, than the common Buzzard.
The bill is blue, with a black tip : cere yellowilh green : iris
yellow : over the eye is a line of white: on the fide of the neck
is a bed of broken white: head and parts above deep brown :
bread and belly marked with numerous tranlverle black and
white bars: tail alh-coloured, long, with four or five dulky bars :
legs yellow: claws black.
Willughby obferves, that “ the thighs are covered over with
reddilh feathers, having a black line in the middle down the
fhaft:” alfo “ in each feather of the .bread there is a black
circular line near the top, running parallel to the edges of the
feather, and in fome alfo the lhaft and middle part of the feather
is black.”
This fpecies was formerly held in great efteem for the Iport
of falconry, being ufed not only to Partridge and Pheafant,
but alfo greater fowl, as Geefe and Cranes, and fometimes for
Rabbets. Indeed, moil of the Hawks may be trained up for
this purpofe, though fome are infinitely more docile than
others.
The Gojhawk is not, I believe, very common in England, but
in Scotland is frequent, where it breeds, and is very deftruftive to
game. It is found alfo in North America.
Petit autour de Cayenne, Buf. oif. i. p. 237,’
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'p H E bill of this bird is blue: the iris orange: the head and
neck behind blueilh white: back and wings dark alh: the
under parts from the throat to the vent are nearly white: prime
quills black; fecond quills barred with black: on the tail are
four or five alternate bars of black and white; the black ones by
much the broadeft: tip white: legs Ihort, and of a blue colour:
claws black.
Inhabits Cayenne.
Accipiter macrourus, N. C. Ac. Petr. 15. t. 8, 9.
q p H I S is nearly of the fize of the Lanner, being in length one
foot feven inches, in breadth nearly two feet. The bill is
black, at the bafe green : cere luteous: noftrils oval, half covered
with black ftiff briftles: eyelids and irides of a faffron-
colour: parts above cinereous, inclining to reddilh on the back;
beneath quite white, with a tinge of afh-colour on the upper
part of the neck: tail rounded, very long, of itfelf meafuring
nearly eight inches and three quarters; in colour it is whitilh,
and eroded with alternate bands of deeper and paler brown j the
I 2 two
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