168 LIST OF DIUENAL BIRDS OF PEET. 



at Norwich^ and I therefore believe that it has been correctly 



identified. 



It may be desirable to compare these measurements of 



Japanese specimens with the following, which I have taken 



from adults of the same species obtained in other 



countries : — 



Wing. Tarsus. J^^^^^^ 



° toe s. u. 



in. in. in. 



( 6-4o 1-70 1-00 



Six males, China s to to to 



16-80 l-8o ]-10 



Male, Cochin China 6-55 1-90 110 



Male, Malacca Quo 1-85 1-10 



Male, East Timor 6*45 1-85 1-20 



(7-70 1-90 1-20 



Five females, China < to to to 



( 7-85 2-05 1-30 



Female, Zamboanga, Philippine Is-"! -._^ -.,0-7 l-lfii 



lands J "^ 



Female, Singapore 7-25 2-00 1-15 



Female, Java 7-40 2-00 l-lo 



Female, Java 7*45 1'90 l'2o 



Female, Sumatra 7-6o 1-90 1-35 



OS coast of Cochin China 7-85 2-00 l-3o 



As already remarked, I have hitherto supposed the 

 Japanese Hawk, which I now refer to Accipiter nisoides, to 

 be identical ■ndth the northern race of Accipiter vir gains : I 

 was chiefly led into this error by the lack of adult examples 

 from Japan, and by the circumstance that the majority of 

 immature specimens of A. nisoides in the first yearns plumage 

 greatly resemble A. virgatus at a corresponding age; but 

 I am now of opinion that all the Japanese and Chinese 

 Sparrow-Hawks of the genus Accipiter which I have examined 

 (exclusive of specimens of A. nisus) should be referred to 

 A. nisoides ; but all those that I have seen from Formosa 

 to the large Himalayan race of A. virgatus, for which I 

 propose, as subsequently to be explained, to use Hodgson^s 

 subspecific name of " affinis." 



' The measurements of this specimen are extracted from the 'Pro- 

 ceedings of the Zoological Society " for 1878, p. 938. 



