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AMERICAN SPARROW HAWK 



The female of this species which is here faithfully represented 

 from a very beautiful living specimen, furnished by a particular 

 friend, is eleven inches long, and twenty-three from tip to tip of 

 the expanded wings. The cere and legs are yellow ; bill blue, tipt 

 with black; space round the eye greenish blue; iris deep dusky; 

 head bluish ash ; crown rufous ; seven spots of black on a white 

 ground surround the head in the manner represented in the figure ; 

 whole upper parts reddish bay transversely streaked with black; 

 primary and secondary quills black, spotted on their inner vanes 

 with brownish white; whole lower parts yellowish white, marked 

 with longitudinal streaks of brown, except the chin, vent and fe- 

 moral feathers which are white; claws black. 



The male of this species (which is an inch and a half shorter, 

 has the shoulder of the wings blue, and also the black marks on 

 the head; but is in other respects very differently marked from the 

 female) will appear in an early part of the present work; with such 

 other particulars as may be thought worthy of communicating. 



