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FALCO SPARVERIUS. 
9. FALCO SPASrEmus, LINNAEUS. 
AMERICAN SPARROW HAWK. 
WILSON, PLATE XXXIi. FIG. II. MALE. — EDINBURGH COLh^^^ 
MUSEUM. 
The female of this species is described in the p'*” 
ceding article. 
The male sparrow hawk measures about ten 
in length, and twenty-one in extent ; the whole u^P* 
parts of the head are of a fine slate blue, the shafts of * 
plumage being black, the crown excepted, which ^ 
marked with a spot of bright rufous; the slate 
to a point on each side of the neck; seven black sPp 
surround the head, as in the female, on a reddish " 
ground, which also borders each sloping side of y 
blue ; front, lores, line over and under the eye, chi'!' 
and throat, white ; femoral and vent feathers, yello";’* 
white ; the rest of the lower parts, of the same ’ 
each feather being streaked down the centre 
long black drop, those on the breast, slender, on 
sides, larger; upper part of the back and sc.apulars, 
reddish bay, marked with ten or twelve transV'’'i't 
waves of black ; whole wing-coverts and ends of * jj. 
secondarie.s, black, tipt with white, and spotted on tb* 
inner vanes with the same ; lower part of the backi 
rump, and tail-coverts, plain bright bay ; tail rouii®* ! 
the two e.vterior feathers white, their inner Ta" . 
beautifully spotted with black; tlte next, bright ha.^ 
with a broad band of bbudi near its (uid, and tipt 
half an inch with yellowish white ; part of its lo'\j^ 
pterior edge, white, spotted with black, and its opP^^'ije 
interior edge, touched with white ; the whole of 
