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SENEGAL SPARROW-HAWK. 



Accipiter Irachydactylus, SWAINS.* 



Male, above, slate colour; beneath, whitish, transversely 

 banded on the breast and body with ferruginous bands ; 

 throat, thighs, and belly whitish, immaculate ; chin with 

 a central dusky stripe ; wings, beneath, pale fawn colour, 

 and unspotted. 



Female, above, cinereous-brown ; bands, beneath, more nu- 

 merous and broader ; quills, beneath, marked with trans- 

 verse black bands. 



WE fortunately possess both sexes of this pretty 

 little Hawk, which has all the delicacy of shape 

 and proportions belonging to our British species ; 

 yet it is still smaller, the male measuring onlj 

 eleven inches 'and a half. There is nothing mate- 

 rially different in the structure of these two species, 

 excepting that this has not the remarkable elonga- 

 tion of the first joint of the middle toe, so conspi- 

 cuous in ours ; so that the inner toe of this species 

 (without the claw) is considerably longer than the 

 first joint of the next, whereas in ours both are 



* There is a species from India, figured in the PL Col., 

 which is much like this, but nothing is said of the stripe on 

 the chhi, so conspicuous on all the specimens we have seen of 

 our present bird. 



