Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1907 — The Chameleon Goshawk. [ARTICLE]

The Chameleon Goshawk.

I know no bird which passes through so many changes' of plumage and color of eyes as the 'goshawk. A young one which I have mounted is about the slzs of a small hen and Is covered with white down. His eyes are pale blue. I colored the eyes exactly from life. When fully grown, tbs first plumage Is dark brown above and the eyes are pale yellow. No one would be likely to suspect this being a goshawk who bad seen only adult birds. Later II changes to the dark slaty blue of the adult, and the eye, after passing through all the Intermediate changes In color from straw yellow, orange yellow and pink, finally assumes the deep rich red of the adult I know no other hawk, adds Manly Hardy, writing in Forest and Stream, so handsome as the goshawk.