Class IL 



SPARROW HAWK. 



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color than those of the male : it is greatly supe- 

 rior in size ; its legs have a tinge of green, in 

 other respects it resembles the former, -rim |ycr: 



Palco Nisus. F. cera viridi, pedi- 

 bus flavis, abdomine griseo 

 undulato, cauda fasciis nlgri- 

 cantibus. Lath. Ind. orn. 44. 

 id. Syn. i. gg. id. Sup. i. 26. 



ii'Espervier. Belonav. 121. 



Gesner av. 51. 



Sparhauc Turneri. 



Accipiter fringillarius, spar- 



- viero. Aldr. av. i. 183. 



Will. orn. 86. 



L'Epervier, accipiter. Brisson 

 av. i. 310. Hist, d'ois. i. 



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225. PL Enl. 467. 



22. Spakrow 



412. 



Hawk. 



Rail syn. av. 18. 





Sperber. Frisch. i. gO, gi. 





Kra7n. 332. 





Falco Nisus. Gm. Lin. 280. 



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Sparfhoek. Faun. Suec. sp. 





69. 





Spurre-hoeg. Brunnick p. 5. 





Scopoli. No. 6. 





Br. Zool.Gg. plate A. 10. A. 





11. Arci. Zool.i. 262. 





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A- HE difference between the size of the male 

 and female sparrow hawks, is more dispropor- 

 tionate than in most other birds of prey ; 

 the former sometimes scarcely weighing five 

 ounces, the latter nine ounces. The length 

 of the male is about twelve inches, the breadth 

 twenty-three : the female is fifteen inches long ; 

 in breadth twenty-six. These birds, as well 

 as the hawk kind in general, vary greatly in 

 their colors ; in some, the back, head, co- 

 verts of the wings and tail, are of a deep 

 bluish grey ; in others of a deep brown, edged 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



