Crossword-Solution: ACCIPITER 9 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Another (Accipiter trinotatus) is a beautiful hawk, with elegant rows of large round white spots on the tail, rendering it very conspicuous and quite different from any other known bird of the family.

Sed minuit furorem Vix una sospes navis ab ignibus, Mentemque lymphatam Mareotico Redegit in veros timores 15 Caesar, ab Italia volantem Remis adurgens, accipiter velut Mollis columbas aut leporem citus Venator in campis nivalis Haemoniae, daret ut catenis 20 Fatale monstrum.

The Sparrow-Hawk (Accipiter fringillarius) survives, although in diminished numbers; and this indeed is the only one of the hawks against which “my voice should be for open war.” It is very destructive and very daring in the pursuit of its quarry.

Nearly all are of small or moderate size--the largest among them being the gos-hawk (q.v.) and its immediate allies, and the male of the smallest, _Accipiter tinus_, is not bigger than a song-thrush.

THE SPARROW-HAWK Accipiter nisus (Linnæus) Numerous and abundant throughout our woodland districts, it must be confessed that this species, especially when rearing its young, does undoubtedly considerable damage among the pheasant coops, and there is less to be said in favour of this bird than is the case with most of the other birds destroyed by the game-preserver.