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riety of a bird of the same country, which is ash coloured above, 
white beneath, with vestiges of grey undulations.(1) 
We may also approximate to the Goshawks some American birds 
with short wings and tarsi; the latter, however, reticulated. y oe 
F. cachinnans, L.; Nacagua, Azz.; Vieill. Gal. 19; Spix, 
(The Laughing Falcon.) So called free its cry; white; the man- 
tle 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,(2) 
The name of SparrowHawk, (Nisus, Cuv.) is generally appro- 
priated to those whose tarsi are higher and scutellated; but the tran-— 
sitions from one division to the other are almost insensible. 
F. nisus, L.; Epervier Commun, Enl. 412 and;467; Naum. 19, 
(The Common Sparrowhawk.) Coloured like the Goshawk, 
but its legs are longer, and it is a third less in size. It is employ- 
ed however by falconers. The spots beneath on the young bird 
red and arrow-shaped, or like elongated tears—the feathers of 
its mantle are also edged with red. 
There are foreign species still smaller;(3) but there are some 
also much larger. 
F. musicus, Daud.; Faucon chanteur, Vaill. Afric. xxvii. 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 partridges and hares, 
and builds on trees. The only bird of prey known that sings: 
agreeably.(4) 
(1) Other foreign goshawks, F. poliogaster, Tem. Col. 264 and 295;—F- trivirga- 
tus, Tem. Col. 303;—F. leucauchen, Tem. Col. 306 ;—F. radiatus, Lath. Col. 123, 
V’Aut. poliosome, Quoy and Gaym, Voy.de Freycin. pl. xiv ;—~F leucorrhous, lb. 
pl. xiii; —F. wnicinctus, Tem. col. 313. These three last, in shape, closely resemble 
the urubitinga. The F. pennsylvanicus, Wils. IV, liv, 1;—the F. borealis, L. Vieill. 
Am: pl. xiv, bis ; Wils. li, 1 ;—#. /everianus, Wils. lii, 2 ;—F. striolatus, T. Col. 
87 and 294, or Asturine cendrée, Vieill. Gal. 20 ;—F. monogrammicus, T'. Col. 314 ; 
—F. Dussumiert, T. Col. 308 and 386. The latter conduct us insensibly to the 
Sparrowhawks. 
N. B: The F. cxrulescens forms the genus Hierax of Vigors': the species with 
two teeth, as the didentatus, &c. or the Bivens of Spix, are the Harracus of the 
same gentleman. 
(2) Here comes the F. melanops, Lath. Col. 105. It is from this schinieibion that 
Vieillot has made his Herreruorueres. 
(3) As the Gabar, Vaill. Afr. 33, (F- Gabar, Sh.) Col. 122 and 140;—the F.. mi- 
nullus, Sh. 
(4) Other Sparrow-Hawks foreign to Europe : The Mixed Lead-coloured Buzzard, 
Azz. No. 67, (F. hemidactilus, T.) Col. 3 and 91; Fale. magnirostris, Enlum. 460, 
