ACCIPITRES. SIN 
F. cachinnans, L.; Nacagua of Azz.; Vieill. Gal. 19; Spix, III. 
(The Laughing Falcon). ~ So called from its cry; white; the mantle 
and a band, which extends from the circumference of the eye to the 
neck, where it joins a corresponding one on the opposite side, brown; 
brown and white bands on the tail. From the marshes of South 
America, where it feeds on reptiles and fish*. 
The name of SparrowunAwk (Nisus, Cuv.), is generally appropriated 
to those whose tarsi are scutellated and higher; but the transitions from 
one division to the other are almost insensible. 
F. nisus, L.; The Epervier Commun of the French, Enl. 412 
and 467; Naum. 19, 20. (The Common Sparrowhawk). Coloured 
like the Goshawk, but its legs are longer, and it is a third less in 
size. It is employed however by falconers. The spots beneath on 
the young bird red and arrow-shaped, or like red and elongated 
tears—the feathers of its mantle are also edged with red. 
There are foreign species still smaller} ;. but there are some also 
much larger. 
F, musicus, Daud.; Faucon chanteur, Vaill. Afric. xxvii. (The 
Singing Sparrowhawk). As large as the Goshawk; cinereous above; 
beneath, and the rump, white, streaked with brown; brown, varied 
with red, when young. Found in Africa, where it pursues par- 
tridges and hares, and builds on trees. The only bird of prey known 
that sings agreeably. 
Mitvus, Bechstein. 
The Kites have short tarsi, and weak toes and nails, which, added to a 
bill equally disproportioned to their size, render them the most cowardly 
species of the whole genus; they are distinguished by their excessively 
long wings, and their forked tail, which give them the most rapid and easy 
flight. 
* Here comes the LF. melanops, Lath. Col. 105. It is from this subdivision that 
Vieillot has made his HERPETHOTHERES. 
+ As the Gabar, Vaill. Afr. 33. (F. Gabar, Sh.) Col. 122 and 140;—the Minule, 
Id. 34, (F. minullus, Sh.) 
{ Other Sparrowhawks foreign to Europe: The Mixed Lead-coloured Buzzard, 
Azz. No. 67, or Short-toed Sparrowhawk, (F. hemidactilus, T.) Col. 3 and 91; Fale. 
magnirostris, Enlum. 460, Col. 86;—VFalco columbarius, Catesb. 4, Vieill. Am. pl. 2 
and Wils. II. xv. 3;—the Ep. tachiro, Vaill. Afr. 24 (F. tachiro, Daud.). Col. 377 and 
420 ;—F. euculoides, Temm. Col. 110 and 129;—F. zanthothorax, 'T. Col. 92; F. vir- 
gatus, T. Col. 109;—F. brachipterus, T. Col. 14 and 116, or F. concentricus, Mlig. ;— 
F. pileatus, Pr. Max. Col. 205;—F. gymnogenys, Col. 3807; F. pennsylvanicus (a), 
Wils. VI. xlvi. 1; very different from the Goshawk so called, Id. pl. liv. and the 
young, Col. 67;—F. veloa, Wils. VI. xlv. 1, is the young female of it, according to 
Charles Bonap. ;—F. lineatus, Wils. VI. liii. 3;—F. hiemalis, Wils. IV. xxxv. 1;—/’. 
striatus, Vieill. Am. pl. 14;—F. niger, Vieill. Gal. 22. 
FF (a) Dr. M‘Murtrie says, that the species cited from F. pennsylvanicus to F. 
hiemalis, inclusively, are wrong, and that for them the following should be substituted: 
F. pennsylvanicus, Wils. VI. pl. liv. f. 1;—F. velox (Slate-coloured Hawk), Wils. VI. 
pl. xlvi. f. 1;—F. dubius, Gm. These three birds are considered (Syn. Am. Birds of 
Ch. Bonap.) as the same, and as identical with the F. fuscus of Gmel. 
