. Our northern and eastern birds : containing descriptions of the birds of the northern and eastern states and British provinces; together with a history of their habits, times of arrival and departure, their distribution, food, song, time of breeding, and a careful and accurate description of their nests and eggs . Fig. 1. Pigeon Hawk, Hypolriorchis columbarius. Gray. » ,. 2. Sparrow Hawk, Tinnunculus sparverhis. Vieillot. ,, 3. Sharp-sliinned Hawk, Accipiter fuscus. Bonaparte. ,, 4. Ked-.^houldered Hawk, Biileo Uneatus. Jardine. „ 5. Broad-winged Hawk, Buteo Pennsylvanicus. Bonaparte. THE SP
. Our northern and eastern birds : containing descriptions of the birds of the northern and eastern states and British provinces; together with a history of their habits, times of arrival and departure, their distribution, food, song, time of breeding, and a careful and accurate description of their nests and eggs . Fig. 1. Pigeon Hawk, Hypolriorchis columbarius. Gray. » ,. 2. Sparrow Hawk, Tinnunculus sparverhis. Vieillot. ,, 3. Sharp-sliinned Hawk, Accipiter fuscus. Bonaparte. ,, 4. Ked-.^houldered Hawk, Biileo Uneatus. Jardine. „ 5. Broad-winged Hawk, Buteo Pennsylvanicus. Bonaparte. THE SPARROW HAWK. 19 fir-trees, twelve feet from the ground; eggs three, dulljellowish-brown, with dark reddish-brown blotches. A single egg before me, kindly loaned for descriptionsand figure by George A. Boardman of Milltown, Me., is ofthe above color. It is admirably figured, fig. 1, plate I.,in this volume. It is a trifle more pointed than the eggsof rapacious birds usually are, and measures inch inlength, and inch at its greatest breadth. TINNUNCULUS SPAEVEEIUS.— Sparrow Hawk. ralco sparverius, Linnseus. Syst. Nat., I. 128 (1766). Falco dominicenses, Gm. Syst. Xat., I. 2S5 (1788). Falco gracilis, cinnamoninus, and isabellinus. Sw. Cab. Cy., p. 281 (1838). Descriptiox. Adult. —Front
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