FEMALE. 
62. SPARROW 
Hawk. 
DeEscRIP. 
SPARROW HAWK. Crass Il. 
rior webs of the fecondary and quil feathers, are 
varied with oval tranfverfe reddifh fpots: the 
breaft white, marked with oblong {pots of black : 
thighs and vent feathers, pale orange: the two 
middle feathers of the tail are entirely of a deep 
dove color: the others are barred on their interior 
fides with ruft color, and tipt with a dirty white. 
The fpots on the breaft of the female are of a 
higher color than thofe of the male: it is greatly 
fuperior in fize, its legs have a tinge of green, in 
other refpects it refembles the former. 
L’Efpervier. Below av..121. Sperber Frifch. I. go. gt. 
Gefner av. 51. Kram. 332. 
Sparhauc Turzeri. Falco nifus. Lin. fpf. 130. 
Accipiter fringillarius, fpar- Sparfhoek. Faun. Suec. /p. 
viero. Aldr. av. i. 183. 9: 
Wil, orn. 86. Sperre-hoeg. Brunnich p. 5. 
L’Epervier, accipiter. Brifox Scopoli. No. 6. 
av. 1.310. Hift. d’oys. 1. Br. Zool. 6g. plate A. 10. A. 
225. 11. Pl, Enl. 466, 467.412. 
Raii fyn. av. 18. 
HE difference between the fize of the male 
and female fparrow hawks, is more dif- 
proportionate than in moft other birds of prey; 
the former fometimes fcarce weighing five ounces, 
the latter nine ounces. The length of the male is 
about twelve inches, the breadth twenty-three: the 
female 
