. British birds with their nests and eggs . f Macgillivray extended nine feet in stretch of wings! In the adults the head, neck, forepart of the back and breast, and upperwing-coverts are greyish yellow, the feathers all greyish brown at the base; ofthe other parts greyish brown, edged with yellowish grey ; scapulars and feathersof the rump glossed with purple; those of the abdomen, tibise, and subcaudalregion, inclining to chocolate brown; quills and alular feathers brownish blackwith a tinge of grey; upper tail-coverts and tail white, generally freckled withdusky grey at the base; cere pale
. British birds with their nests and eggs . f Macgillivray extended nine feet in stretch of wings! In the adults the head, neck, forepart of the back and breast, and upperwing-coverts are greyish yellow, the feathers all greyish brown at the base; ofthe other parts greyish brown, edged with yellowish grey ; scapulars and feathersof the rump glossed with purple; those of the abdomen, tibise, and subcaudalregion, inclining to chocolate brown; quills and alular feathers brownish blackwith a tinge of grey; upper tail-coverts and tail white, generally freckled withdusky grey at the base; cere pale yellow; beak bluish grey, yellow at the base;in very old birds the whole of the beak is yellow; irides bright yellow; tarsi andtoes bright yellow; claws black, with a tinge of greyish blue. The female doesnot differ from the male, except in being of larger size. Length T)^ inches, male;40 inches female. The young are first covered with greyish-white down, and donot leave the nest until about the middle of August. As soon as they are strong. Gos-Hawk 9 f The Gos-Hawk. 2 ou wing, and can secure their own prey, tlie (Ad birds drive them off, and the}begin their wanderings ..towards the south. In their immature plumage (in which they are so often taken for GoldenEagles) they are dark brown, mottled with fulvous on the mantle and wings; taildark brown ; beak black ; cere and irides light brown. The full plumage is notattained until the fifth or sixth year. A very large example of an old bird received from the Isle of Lewis was verylight in colour, being of a yellowish grey all over. The writer seen one ofa uniform silvery white, that was shot near Glasgow; in this specimen theplumage was much abraded, and it gave the impression of being of a great old birds are said to become bluish grey upon the mantle. In the museumat Dunrobin Castle there is a perfect albino that had pink eyes. Fat// ily—FAL Gos-Hawk [ Goose-Hawk.) Astur pahimbarius, LiNN. THIS fierc
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