Class II. SPARROW HAWK. 



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. 



" " " - ■ ., 



249 



PL Enl. 



Falco Nisus. F. cera viridi, pedi- £25. 



bus flavis, abdomine griseo 412. 



undulato, cauda fasciis nigri- Raii syn. av. 18. 



cantibus. Lath. Ind. orn. 44. Sperber. Frisch 



id. Syn. i. 99. id. Sup. i. 26. 

 L'Espervier. Beton av. 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. 



467. 22. Spa rbo w 



H.tWK. 



i. 90, 91. 



Kram. 332. 

 Falco Nisus. Gm. Lin. 280. 

 Sparfhoek. Faun. Suec. sp. 



69. 

 Spurre-hoeg. Brunnich p. 5. 



Scopoli. No. 6. 

 Br. Zool. 69. plate A. 10. A. 



11. Arct. Zool.i. 262. 



X 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 Descrip- 

 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 



