The naturalist's library : containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects (1854)
Gould, Augustus A. (Augustus Addison), 1805-1866, Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI, Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI · Boston : Phillips, Sampson, and Company · leaf 461
AVES—HAWK. 453 and fifty m the expanse of the wings. Its range extends over a great part of South America, from Venezuela to Paraguay. It builds generally oa tne tops of trees, but sometimes ina bushy thicket. It feeds on almost every sort of living creature. THE GOSHAWK.! … Tuis bird is somewhat longer than the buzzard, but more slender and beautiful, and is one foot ten inches in length. Its bill is blue, tipped with black; the cere green; the eyes yellow; over each eye there is a whitish line; the head and all the upper parts of the body are of a deep brown color;…
Zoology
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