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164.— NEW-HOLLAND SPARROW-HAWK. 



Falco Nisus, Ind. Orn. Sup. p. xi. 



New-Holland Sparrow-Hawk, Gen. Si/71. Sup. ii. p. 51. 



LENGTH 18in. Bill pale blue ; irides yellow ; top of the head 

 ash-colour ; behind the neck rufous ; back and wings dark ash- 

 colour, nearly black ; breast and belly dirty white, crossed with 

 numerous pale rufous bars ; tail long, dusky, with nine or ten pale 

 bars ; wings short, reaching only to the base ; legs yellow. 



Inhabits New-Holland ; has the manners and appearance of the 

 Sparrow-Hawk. 



155.— DARK SPARROW-HAWK. 



SIZE of the last. Bill stout, black ; head, and all above, 

 wings, and tail deep brown ; beneath wholly crossed with pale 

 brown bars, on a whitish ground ; legs long and slender, as in tlie 

 Sparrow-Hawk, dull pale yellow ; toes long, the middle one furnished 

 \vith a kind of lobe or appendage ; wings as in the last. 



Inhabits New South Wales, and called Goo-rooing, but is not 

 common. This seems to be much allied to, if not a variety of the 

 last described. 



