FALCON. 



99 



85. 



•r r ■ o a • ivto • ** SPARROW- 



Falco nifus, Lin. Syfl. 1. p. 130. N° 31. HAWK, 



— — Scop. Ann. i. p. 17. 



L'Epervier, Brif. orn. i. p. 310. N° 4, 

 — . 2?»/~. oif. i. p. 225. t. 11. 



— — PL enl. 412, 466, 467. 



Sperber, Frifcb. t. 90. »«/?. 91. female. 92. •variety , 

 Accipiter fringillarius, Rati Syn. p. 18. N° A. 2. 

 , Sparrow Hawk, Will. orn. p. 86. 

 — Br. Zool. N° 62. 



QCARCE any birds of the fame fpecies differ more in fize than Description. 



the male from the female in this. The firft weighs five ounces, 

 and is twelve inches in length ; the female is nine ounces in 

 weight, and is in length fifteen inches *-. 



The female has the head, hind part of the neck 3 back, rump. Female. 



wing-covertSj fcapulars, and upper tail-coverts, brown; the edges 

 of the feathers rufous : on the hind head are fome whitifh fpots : 

 the under parts are white, or inclining to yellowifh, with rufous 

 brown waves ; each feather being of that colour near the end, 

 tending to a point downwards : the chin fparingly ftreaked with 

 perpendicular lines of brown : quills dufky, barred with black- 

 ifh on the outer, and fpotted with white on the lower part of the 

 inner webs : tail barred with very dark brown ; the tip white : 

 legs yellow : claws black. 



The male differs a little, in having the tranfverfe lines on the Maib. 



breaft lefs abrupt, and not fo numerous ; the under parts of a 



* The following description is from birds in my own poffeffion, but they are 

 apt to vary much in the lhade as well as difpofition of their colours. 



O 2 darker 



