SPARROW-HAWK. 
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white ; on the throat and neck streaked with 
clove brown, sometimes tinted with rufous, and 
on the other parts, except the lower tail coverts, 
barred with the same colour, which also runs to 
a point on the apical bands, and sometimes along 
the shafts ; at times, these bars are much darker 
than at others, and shew beautifully and dis- 
tinctly on the pure white breast ; feet and legs 
gamboge yellow, irides rich safron yellow. Length 
from fourteen to fifteen inches ; one shot this 
morning (in Nov. 1836) fourteen inches three quar- 
ters ; expanse of wings, twenty-four or twenty-five 
inches. In a young female before us, the upper 
parts are nearly yellowish brown, tinted with 
grey, and have the edge of each feather ochra- 
ceous ; on the head and back of the neck darker, 
and edged with rufous. The lower parts yellow- 
ish white ; on the breast, a yellowish brown streak 
along the shaft of the feather, which, on the lower 
part of the breast, or on the belly, stretched out 
at the base to a bar, and produced an appearance 
at once both barred and streaked. On the thighs 
and vent, the distribution is in bars of a brownish 
tint In the young Goshawk, the breast marking 
is all longitudinal bars, here it assumes somewhat 
that of the adult bird; in both the colouring 
of the markings in the young is brown, the adults 
a rich black. 
