292 FALCON. 



The blue Jay has a great antipathy to this bird. 

 Mr. D'Azara mentions one found at Paraguay, which is most 

 probably this, if not, a Variety of our Merlin. 



239.— ABBOTIAN FALCON. 



LENGTH 12| in. breadth 25^; bill black; space round the 

 eye yellow ; back and wings brown, not much varied; the head 

 finely streaked with brown ; over the eye a slender streak of white ; 

 chin white ; under parts of the body white, blotched with ferrugi- 

 nous brown ; under wing coverts brown, marked with pale round 

 spots ; quills, and larger wing coverts beneath, dusky, with oblong- 

 pale spots, like bars, on the inner w ebs ; plumage bluish ; tail 

 Ijrown, about one-third from the end deeper in colour, with three 

 series of pale, or nearly white, spots on each feather, the tips 

 white ; lees rather short and vellow. 



Inhabits various places about Savannah, in Georgia, and has 

 the manners of the Little Falcon ; is said to be rare, and is probably 

 a distinct species, being considered as such by Mr. Abbot, who sent 

 a drawing of the bird. 



241.— CAYENNE SPARROW-HAWK. 



Accipiter cayennensis, Daud. ii. p. 81. Mauduit. Enc. Method. 



We are informed by M. Mauduit, that he met with two Sparrow- 

 Hawks at Cayenne, which appeared as varieties of the common one, 



