Spăr'rōw-hawk, n.

n. [A-S. spear-hafoc, spär-hafoc, spär-haboc, Dan. spurvehög, Sw. sparfhök.] (Ornith.) A small species of short-winged hawk. [Written also spar-hawk.]

The Falco (or Astur) nisus is called sparrow-hawk, by way of eminence, in England. The American sparrow-hawk is the Falco (or Tinnunculus) sparverius, a bird of a cinnamon color, with white neck and markings.