_ NATURAL HISTORY. *  @5 
company their parents for fome time after they can 
fly, which diftinguifhes them from other birds of 
prey. They vary confiderably in their plumage; 
fome having brown breafts and bellies, winle others 
are only marked on.the breaft with a white crefcent. 
They are about two teet long, four feet wide, and 
thirtytwo ounces in weight. | ; 
Of this fpecies there are alfo,, the honey, moor and 
PH buzzard ; the hen harrierr, keiftril and hob- 




SPARROW HAWKEK.: 
3 . Lo Oe ae 
4 HERE isa great difference in fize betwee 
male and f@male of this bird’; the latter, - wei 
nearly twice as muchas the former. ; They vary 
confiderably in their plumagé;. though the ‘Back, 
head, coverts-:of the wings and tail, aregenerally of 
a blue grey. It makes great devaftationy ginong pig- 
eons and patridges. « Gu Miah we 
~ _ Lhe fparrow hawk wasn fuch veneration among 
the Egyptians, that they chofe it as the reprefentative 
of their God Ofiris, and punifhed with death every 
rfon who fhould killone.. The Greeks confecrated 
itto Apollo. it was alfo made-ene of the fymbols o 
june, from its fixed and piercing fight which refem- 
led the jealous obfervance of that Goddefs, 
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