GOS-HAWK
\ɡˈɒshˈɔːk], \ɡˈɒshˈɔːk], \ɡ_ˈɒ_s_h_ˈɔː_k]\
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[O.E.] (Ornith.) A short-winged British hawk, used mainly for ground game. Male, eighteen inches long, female, twenty-four inches. Plumage, grey-brown above, white dashed with black below ; young birds, gentil falcons, are more of a red colour. Astur palumbarius [L., hawk used for doves (palumbes)], sub-fam. Accipitrinae, fam. Falconidae, ord. Accipitres.
By Henry Percy Smith
