ClafsII. SPARROW HAWK. 151 



with the back, but (lightly edged with ruft color: 

 the interior webs of the fecondary and qui! feathers, 

 are varied with oval tranfverfe reddifh fpots : 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 refpedls it re- 

 fembles the former. 



XVIII. The SPARROW HAWK. 



L'Efpervier. Eehn an;. l2l» Rail/yn. a'v. i8. 



Gefner av. 51. Kram- 332. 



Sparhauc Turneri. Falco nifus. Lin. fyji. i-^o. 



Accipiter fringillarius, fparvlero. Sparfhoek. Faun. Suec.fp. 69- 



Aldr. an;, i. 183. Spurre-hoeg. Brunnich f. 5. 



Wil. orn. 86. Br. Zool. 69. plate A. so<. 

 L'Epervier, accipiter. Brijfon A. 1 1 . 



av. i. 310. 



TH E difference between the fize of the male 

 and female fparrow hawks, is more difpro- 

 portionate than in moft other birds of prey ; the for- 

 mer fometimes fcarce weighing fii^e ounces, the latter 

 nine ounces : the length of the male is about twelve Defer, 

 inches, the breadth twenty- three : the female is fifteen 

 inches long -, in breadth twenty-fix. 



Thefe birds, as well as the hawk kind in general, 



vary greatly in their colors ^ in fome, the back, head, 



coverts of the wings and tail, are of deep bluilh grey ; 



in others of a deep brown, edged with a rufty red : the 



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