198 



Female. 



SPARROW HAWK. Class IL 



rior webs of the fecondary and quil feathers, are 

 varied with oval tranfverfe reddilh fpots : the 

 bread white, marked with oblong fpots of black : 

 thighs and vent feathers, pale orange: the two 

 middle feathers of the tail are entirely of a deep 

 dove color : the others are barred on their interior 

 fides with ruft color, and tipt with a dirty white. 

 The fpots on the breaft of the female are of a 

 higher color than thofe of the male : it is greatly 

 fuperior in fize, its legs have a tinge of green, in 

 other refpeds it refembles the former. 



62. Sparrow L'Efpervier. Belon av* 121. 

 Hawk. Gefner wv, 51, 



Sparhauc Turneri. 

 Accipiter fringillarius, fpar- 

 y'xtro. AUr. ohj. i. 183. 

 Wil, orn. 86. 



L'Epervier, accipiter. Brijfon 

 anj, I. 310. Hiji. d^ays. i. 

 225. 

 Rail fyn, a'v. 18. 



Sperber Frifch. I. 90. 91. 



Kratn. 332. 

 Falco nifus. Lin, fyfi. 130. 

 Sparfhoek. Faun. Suec. fp. 



69. 



Spurre-hoeg. Brunnich p. 5. 



Scopoli. No. 6. 

 Br. Zool. 69. plate A. 10. A. 



11. PL J?«/. 466, 467. 412. 



Descrip, 



THE difference between the fize of the male 

 and female fparrow hawks, is more dif- 

 proportionate than in mofl: other birds of prey ; 

 the former fometimes fcarce weighing five ounces, 

 the latter nine ounces. The length of the male is 

 about twelve inches, the breadth twenty-three : the 



female 



