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Sparrow Hawk.

Length, 11.00 inches. Male, back reddish brown and black, wing-coverts slaty blue, tail reddish brown marked with black and white; under parts washed with rusty and spotted with black. Female, back, wings, and tail barred with reddish brown and black; under parts white, streaked with red- dish brown.