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ACCIPITEK NISUS. 



(SPARROW-HAWK.) 



Falco nisus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 130 (1766). 



Dcedalion fringillarius, Savigny, Descr. de l'Egypte, Ois. p. 270 (1808). 



Ier ax fringillarius, Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. &c. Brit. Mus. p. 10 (1816). 



Sparvius nisus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. x. p. 319 (1817). 



Buteo nisus, Fleming, Hist. Brit. B. p. 55 (1828). 



Accipiter nisus, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 370 (1831). 



"Nisus communis, Cuv.," Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 53 (1831). 



Nisus elegans, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 86 (1831). 



Nisus peregrinus, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 88 (1831). 



Nisus fringillarum, Brehm, Isis, 1832, p. 749. 



Acdpiter nisosimi 'lis, Tickell, J. A. S. B. xiii. p. 571 (1833). 



Astur nisus, Keys. & Bias. Wirbelth. Eur. p. 31 (1840). 



Astur major, Degland, Orn. Europ. i. p. 86 (1849). 



Nisus fringillarius, Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 64. 



Sparrow-Hawk, English ; Speir-sheog, Gaelic (R. Gray) ; L'Epervier, Tiercelet, French ; 

 Sparviere, Italian ; Spriveri, Spraveri, Sicilian (Doderlein) ; Gavilan, Milano jaspeado, 

 Spanish (L. II. Irby) ; Esparver, Valencian (H. Saunders) ; Gaviao, Portuguese ; Falkett, 

 Maltese (C. A. Wright); Sperber, Finkenhabicht, German; de Sperwer, Dutch; Sparfhbk 

 Swedish ; Spurvehceg, Finkehceg, Danish and Norwegian ; Varpuishaukka, Finnish ; 

 Krogulec, Polish ; Perpelatnik, Russian. 



Figurce notabiles. 

 Buff. PI. Enl. 412, 467 ; Naum. Vog. Deutschl. i. Taf. 19, 20 ; Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 62 ; Gould, 

 B. of E. i. pi. 18; Kjeerb. Orn. Dan. Taf. iv. figs. 4, 5; Schl. Vog. Nederl. pis. 13, 14, 

 et Tr. de Fauc. pi. x. ; Salv. & Brodr. Falconry, pis. xx. & xxi. ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. tab. 4. 

 fig. 5 ; Brodrick, Falc. Fav. pis. ii. & iii. ; Gould, B. of Gt. Br. pt. v. ; Bettoni, Ucc. Lomb. 

 Tav. 58; Sundev. Svensk. Fogl. pi. xxvii. fig. 1. 



<S ad. supra cinereus, plumarum nuchalium basi alba, : scapularibus et tectricibus alarum dorso concoloribus, 

 vix saturatioribus, barum minimis obsolete albo marginatis : remigibus brunneis, scapis pallidius brunneis, 

 secimdariis cinereis dorso concoloribus : ala inferiore sericeo-alba, pennis versus apicem cinerascenti- 

 brunneis, fasciis regularibus brunneis transnotatis : cauda. supra cinerascenti-brunnea, fasciis saturatiiis 

 brunneis conspicue transnotata, ad apicem anguste albido terminata, : fronte, loris et supercilio 

 indistincto albidis : regione auriculari saturate cinerea, : genis, cum gutture toto et colli lateribus, 

 albidis, angustissime brunneo medialiter striatis, bis paullb rufescentibus : corpore reliquo subtus 

 albido, ubique fasciis rufescentibus et brunneis transnotato, pectoris plumis medialiter brunneo anguste 

 striatis : corporis lateribus et bypochondriis rufescente maxime tinctis, cruribus etiam magis rufes- 



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