152 SPARROW HAWK. ClafsII. 



quil feathers are dusky, barred with black on their 

 exterior webs, and fpotted with white on the lower 

 part of their inner webs : the tail is of a deep afh color 

 marked with five broad black bars, the tip white : 

 the breaft and belly are of a whitifh yellow, adorned 

 with tranfverfe waved bars ; in fome of a deep brown 

 color, in others orange : the cere, irides, and legs 

 yellow. The colors of the female differ from thofe 

 of the male : the head is of a deep brown -, the back, 

 and coverts of the wings, are dusky mixed with dove 

 color ; the coverts of the tail of a brighter dove color •, 

 the waved lines that crofs the breaft, are more nu- 

 merous than thofe on that of the male ; and the breaft 

 itfelf of a purer white. 



This is the moft pernicious hawk v/e have -, and 

 makes great havoke among pigeons, as well as par- 

 tridges. It builds in hollow trees, and large ruins, 

 and in high rocks : lays four white eggs, encircled 

 near the blunter end with red fpecks. Mr. Willoughhy 

 places this among the fhort-winged hawks ; or fuch 

 whofe wings, when clofed, fall fnort of the end of th.e 

 tail. 



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