FALCON. 



131 



56— SPARROW-HAWK. 



. Falco IS isus, 7hc/. Or». i. p. 44. Lin. i.ViO. Fn. Suec. H^o. 69. Gm. Lin. \. 2S0. 



Scop. Ann. \. No. 6. Brim. p. 5. Mul/er, No. 71. Fn. Arag. \).(j'.). AVum. 332. 



J'rwc/i. t. 90. 91. 92. It. Poseg. p. 2S. Borowsk.'u, p.rb. Daud.u.^O. Bechst. . 



Deutsch.W. mo. Shaic's Zool.Yu. \S7. Tern. 3Ian. cPOrn. p. 31. Id. ed.u. p.b7. 

 Accipiter fringillarius, i?afi S'yn. p. 18, JVill.p.bl. t.5, Klein. At\ p.bS. Gvrin.Ohi, 



i. t.l7. ^rw.i. 310. Id. 8vo. 89. 

 Eperv-ier, jBi(/. i. 225. pl.ll. PI. enl. 412.467. Vot/. en Barb. \. 266. Celt, uc Sard. 



p. 51. Voy. d' Azara, iii. No. 27. 

 ^pti-cber, Gunth.Nest.u.Eijer.t.6. Nuturf. 8. fi.bb. 24. 

 Sparrow-Hawk, GeH. S'i/rj. i. p. 99. Id. Sup. p.26. £r. Zoo/, i. No. 02. Id.fol.t.A. 



10.11. /(/. ed. 1812. i. p. 249. ^rc^ Zoo/, il. p. 226. N. Hayes Br. Birds, pl.'i. 



AIJ).\. p\.b, Id.m. pi. 4. Will. Engl. p. 86. Bewick,\.p\.p.2^, Lewin's Birds, 



i. pl.20. /(/. JBg-g-*. pi. iii. f. 2. JFa/cot's Birds, \. pl.2(). Orn. Diet. ^ Sup. 



THE male and female of tliis species differ greatly in size — tlie 

 first weighs five ounces ; is 12 inches in length, and 23 in breadth ; 

 bill blue; cere and irides yellow; plumage on the upper parts deep 

 ])luisli grey, or deep brown, edged with rufous ; on the hindhead a 

 Iwoken bed of white ; the mider parts are in some white, in others 

 pale rufous yellow, crossed with numerous, vuidulated lines of dusky, 

 or rufous brown, each feather being margined with that colour, and 

 a line of the same down the shaft ; chin and throat marked with 

 similar lines, but rarely barred ; quills dusky, barred with black on 

 the outer, and spotted with white on the inner webs ; tail the colour 

 of the back, crossed with five broad dusky black bars, end whitish ; 

 legs long, slender, yellow; claws black. 



The female weighs nine ounces; is loin, in length, and 26 in. 

 broad. It differs from the male in having tlie colours in general 

 paler, and less defined, and the ground of the under parts rarely 

 otherwise than white; but, indeed, individuals of both sexes vary 



greatly trom each other. 



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