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Title: A history of British birds. By the Rev. F.O. Morris ..
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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s.Greater and lesser wing coverts, dark brown, tipped and spottedwith red; primaries, reddish brown, tipped with light red, andspotted with the same on the inner webs; secondaries, spottedon the outer webs and barred on the inner with red. Thetail, light red, barred on the inner webs with eight bands ofbrown, the end one being three quarters of an inch in width;the tip dull reddish white, underneath it is light reddishyellow. At the first moult the bluish grey tint appears inthe male, and the bars on both webs. The legs and toeslight yellow; the featliers light reddish yellow—some of themwith a dusky line in the centre. Claws, brownish black, thetips being paler. Tlie dark markings become smaller as the bird advances inage: those on the outer webs of the tail wear off first: thoseon the inner webs continue for two years. The female altersbut little, assuming in a faint degree the greyish blue tint onthose feathers which are of that colour in the male—the tailalways remains barred.
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GOSHAWK. 103 GOSHAWK. Asfur palumbarius, Selby, Goui-D. Fako palumbarius, Pennant, Buteo palumburins, Fleming. Accipiter palumbarius, Jexyns. ^>;fM;._Conjecturcd from Asturia, in Spain. Palumbarius— Palumba—A Piscon. This species occurs in Europe, Asia, Africa, and perhaps inAmerica; in the former, it has been known in Holland, Denmark,Norway, Russia, Sweden, Germany, France, Italy, and Switz-erland; in Asia, in Chinese Tartary and Siberia; North Africa,also in North America, according to some opinions. The Goshawk, though a short-winged species, and differingtherefore in its flight from those most esteemed in falconry,was highly valued in that art, and flown at hares and rabbits,pheasants, partridges, grouse, ducks, geese, herons, and cranes.In Yorkshire, the only occurrence of this bird on record, wasat Cusworth, near Doncaster, where one was killed in theyear 1825, by the gamekeeper of W. B. Wrightson, Esq.,M. P. A fine specimen in immature plumage was shot atWesthorpe, near

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