Fea’ Win El OF IN, 
It is lefS frequent about the inhabited parts than the Fackal Falcon, 
being only feen in the dry and uncultivated fpots. It lives however 
on the fame kind of food: its cry not unlike the European Buzzard. 
The male and female are moftly feen together, and they make the 
neft in the fame kind of places, and of nearly the fame materials. 
iN 
Falco Nifus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 44.107. Var os 
Sparrow-hawk, Gen. Synz. p. gg 85. Var. C. 
¥ ENGT H eighteen inches; in appearance not unlike the Sparrow- 
hawk: bill pale blue: irides and legs yellows: the top of the 
head is afh colour; hind partof the neck rufous: back and wings 
~ dark afh colour, nearly black: breaft and belly dirty white, croffed 
with numerous pale rufous bars: tail long, marked with feveral pale 
bars; wings fhort, reaching only to the bafe of it. 
Inhabits New Holland. 
Le Tachiro, Levaill. Of i. p. 100. pl. 24. 
Epervier Tachiro, Daudin. Orx. ii. p. 9. 58- 
"T HIS is little inferior in fize to our Gofoawk: the head and neck 
are varied with white and rufous, with fpots of brown black : 
breaft white, mixed with rufous: above the plumage is dull brown 
for the moft part, beneath white, fhaded with rufous, marked with 
crefcent-like fpots of brown: the quills have white tips: the tail is 
as long as the body, brown above, croffed with deeper bands, beneath 
white, with broad blackifh bands; the quills reach to about the 
middle of it: the bill is blueifh: legs yellow: irides topaz colour : 
the female \efs bright in colour. 
This frequents only the deep forefts, which border Queer Boom, 
and in thofe of Hottniqua Land, and makes the neft between the forks. 
of the branches of the great trees, formed of {mall twigs and mofs ; 
H2 has: 
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N. HOLLAND ; 
SPARROW- 
HAWK. 
DeEscRIPTION. 
PLAceE. 
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SPECKLED 
SPARROW- 
HAWK, 
DEscRIPTIONe 
Pracs. 
