FALCON. 293 



in size and general appearance, diftering only in the disproportion of 

 the markings; in one pale brown ; the tail cinereous, with four 

 bro\\ii bands; throat and neck before whitish, longitudinally streaked 

 with rufous ; and under the tail marked with rufous spots. 



The other deeper brown ; tail the same ; throat and neck before 

 marked with brown lines on a white ground ; belly barred with 

 brown, but the bars neither so broad nor close as in the other, more 

 of the white Ijeing visible ; thighs white, striped across with pale 

 rufous ; under tail coverts white ; in both some v/hitish spots on the 

 nape, as in the European one. 



242.— GREATER CAYENNE SPARROW-HAWK. 



Accipiter Cayennensis major, Daud. ii. 82. Mauduit Enc, Meth. 685. col. 2. 



M. MAUDUIT describes two others from Cayenne, which 

 although larger by one-third, appear to him to bear no small affinity 

 to the common species, yet, in reality, distinct; the one brown above, 

 the edges of the feathers pale rufous ; beneath white, marked with 

 rufous brown parallel streaks, in the direction of the feathers ; the 

 other deeper brown, edged with rufous ; throat white, the feathers 

 streaked with brown down the shafts ; sides of the neck the same • 

 middle of it, breast, belly, and vent, white, marked on the sides 

 with oblong brown spots ; and the thighs transversely barred with 

 the same ; the tail in both deeper or paler brown, barred with a 

 darker colour ; perhaps the diiFerence of the size may be owing to 

 that of the sex. 



