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FALCO SPARVERIUS. 
9 . FALCO SPARVERIUS , LINNAEUS. 
AMERICAN SPARROW HAWK. 
WILSON, PLATE XXXII. FIG. II. MALE. -—EDINBURGH COLLEGE 
MUSEUM. 
The female of this species is described in the pre- 
ceding’ article. 
The male sparrow hawk measures about ten inches 
in length, and twenty-one in extent ; the whole upper 
parts of the head are of a fine slate blue, the shafts of the 
plumage being black, the crown excepted, which is 
marked with a spot of bright rufous ; the slate tapers 
to a point on each side of the neck; seven black spots 
surround the head, as in the female, on a reddish white 
ground, which also borders each sloping side of the 
blue ; front, lores, line over and under the eye, chin, 
and throat, white ; femoral and vent feathers, yellowish 
white ; the rest of the lower parts, of the same tint, 
each feather being streaked down the centre with a 
long black drop, those on the breast, slender, on the 
sides, larger ; upper part of the back and scapulars, deep 
reddish bay, marked with ten or twelve transverse 
waves of black; whole wing- coverts and ends of the 
secondaries, black, tipt with white, and spotted on their 
inner vanes with the same ; lower part of the back, the 
rump, and tail-coverts, plain bright bay ; tail rounded, 
the two exterior feathers white, their inner vanes 
beautifully spotted with black; the next, bright bay, 
with a broad band of black near its end, and tipt for 
half an inch with yellowish white ; part of its lower 
exterior edge, white, spotted with black, and its opposite 
interior edge, touched with white ; the whole of the 
