3 IS 
SENEGAL SPARROW-HAWK. 
Acdpiter Iracliydactylus, Swains.* 
Male, above, slate colour; beneath, -whitish, transversely 
banded on the breast and body with ferruginous bands -, 
throat, thighs, and belly — whitish, immaculate ; chin with 
a central dusky stripe ; wings, beneath, pale fawn colour, 
and unspotted. 
Female, above, cinereous-brown; bands, beneath, more nu- 
merous and broader ; quids, beneath, marked with trans- 
verse black bands. 
We fortunately possess both sexes of this pretty 
little Hawk, which has all the delicacy of shape 
and proportions belonging to our British species ; 
yet it is still smaller, the male measuring onlj 
eleven inches 'and a half. There is nothing mate* 
lially different in the structure of these two species, 
excepting that this has not the remarkable elonga- 
tion of the first joint of the middle toe, so conspi- 
cuous in ours; so that the inner toe of this species 
(without the claw) is considerably longer than the 
first joint of the next, — whereas in ours both are 
* There is a species from India, figured in the PI. Col., 
which is much like this, but nothing is said of the stripe on 
the chin, so conspicuous on all the specimens we have seen of 
our present bird. 
