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Bell. Av. 19. (). 



Uaij Av. \S.—JVilL ]), 51. t. 5.— Klein. Av. 

 p. 53. 25. 



Nifiis ftriatus fagittatus. Frifch. t. 90, Ql, 9'2. 

 Sperber. Gwith, ISleJh u. Eijer. t. (1 

 Epervier, Buff. 1. p. 225. t. I l.— P/. EnL 41'2. 46?. 

 Sparrow Hawk. .4//;. /. t. b.—-l(L 111. ^. 4. 



Will. (Angl.) p. 86. 

 ZooL L N° 62. 



<E00/. I 1.7;. 226. IV. 



Zf//^. Gf'w. /. p. 99. S5.—Id. Supp. p. 26. 



A widely diffufed ipeciea, being a general inhabitant of Europe, 

 Afia, and Africa, and we liave little doubt of America alfo. The 

 length of the male bird is twelve inches;> that of the female fourteen 

 or fifteen inches. 



This is a fierce and aftive kind of Hawk, but not very powerful, 

 the bill Jjeing fmall and the legs unlike mofl of the Hawk tribe, long 

 and flender. It is trained like the refi: for the fports of Hawking, but 

 its attacks are confined to the fmalier tribes of birds, and as the trivial 

 appellation implies, of the fparrow chiefly. 



Among the recorded varieties of this . fpecies one /3 is fjpotted 

 (Accipiter maculatus of Brifs,) and another y la6leus is entirely of a 

 milky white. 



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