. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . arker, and tipped with tail is alternately banded with dark brown and lightgreyish-brown, and largely tipped with white, there being fivedark bands on the middle feathers. The lower parts are lightyellowish-red, or reddish-white ; the throat, legs, and lowertail-coverts with longitudinal blackish-brown lines, the ante-rior part of t
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . arker, and tipped with tail is alternately banded with dark brown and lightgreyish-brown, and largely tipped with white, there being fivedark bands on the middle feathers. The lower parts are lightyellowish-red, or reddish-white ; the throat, legs, and lowertail-coverts with longitudinal blackish-brown lines, the ante-rior part of the breast with oblong, and the rest with lanceolatespots of the same colour. Remarks.—In a list of the birds of Shetland, with which Ihave been favoured by Dr Laurence Edmondston, that gentle-man, whom a long residence and continued observation haverendered familiar with the productions of those islands, hasthe following note:— Falco Palumbarius is not uncommonat all seasons. I have not myself seen its nest, but it is saidto build in rocky cliffs. It preys chiefly on rabbits and Shetland specimen of this very rare bird would be a greatacquisition to the London or Edinburgh Museums. 340 ACCIPITER NISUS. THE SPARROW HAWK. Falco Nisus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 131. Falco Nisus. Lath. Iiul. Oiii. L 44. Sparrow Hawk. Mont. Orn. Diet. LEpervier. Falco Nisus. Temm. Man. dOrn. L 5(j; TIL 28. Sparrow Hawk. Accipiter fringillarius. Selb. Illustr. L 32. Accipiter fringillarius. Sparrow Hawk. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 85. Male about twelve inches long^ with the upper parts dark bluis/i-grey^ the lower reddish-white^ transmrsehj barred with yelloicish-red. Female about fifteen inches long, icith the upper partsgreyish-brown, the lower greyish-white, transversely barred withdark grey. Young brown above, the feathers margined withlight red, the markings on the lower parts more dusky, and thelast band on each feather someichat cordate or p>ointed, the femalemore tinged with
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