. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . Tie ■ (s) The Gojhawk Accipiter Palumbarius. Numb. VIII. IT is fomewhat bigger than the common Buzzard:its Head, Neck, Back, and upper Side of the Wings ofa dark, dusky Brown or Buzzard Colour: The wholeBread and Belly white with tranfverfe black Lines (land-ing very thick ; the Thighs in the Cock are coveredwith rediili Feathers having black Lines in the Middledown the Shaft; the Legs and Feet are yellow; the Ta-lons black. The Beak blewifli, the Sear of a yellowilh Green ; theW

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. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . Tie ■ (s) The Gojhawk Accipiter Palumbarius. Numb. VIII. IT is fomewhat bigger than the common Buzzard:its Head, Neck, Back, and upper Side of the Wings ofa dark, dusky Brown or Buzzard Colour: The wholeBread and Belly white with tranfverfe black Lines (land-ing very thick ; the Thighs in the Cock are coveredwith rediili Feathers having black Lines in the Middledown the Shaft; the Legs and Feet are yellow; the Ta-lons black. The Beak blewifli, the Sear of a yellowilh Green ; theWings when clofed fall lliort of the End of the Train,by which Note alone, and its Bignefs, it is fufficiently di-ftinguillied from all other Hawks, The Train is of a dun Colour, with black Bars Hand-ing at a good Diftance from each other. It takes not only Partridges and Pheafants^ but alfogreater Fowls, as Geeje and Cranes, fometimes alfo itcatches The 8

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