44 RAPTORIAL BIRDS 
the former of which occurs in New Guinea and Tas- 
mania, and is remarkable as being the only bird of 
prey whose entire plumage is of a pure and unbroken 
white, a circumstance which makes this species one 
of the most striking and beautiful of its family. 
The following genus, Zachyspiza, contains a single 
small species, Zachyspiza soloensis, which is a native of 
South Eastern Asia, and of the adjacent islands, and 
which is separated from the other hawks on account 
of the remarkable proportionate shortness of the tarsi. 
This is succeeded by the genus U7vosfzza, consist- 
ing of several species which are scattered over the 
islands of the Indian Ocean, and three of which occur 
as far south as Australia, two of them being also found 
in Tasmania. 
One species of this genus, Urospiza haplochrous, a 
native of New Caledonia, was first figured and des- 
cribed in the “Ibis” for 1859, ere a specimen in the 
Norwich Museum. 
The following genus, Accipiter, consists of a large 
number of species scattered over Europe, Asia, Africa, 
America, and many oceanic islands, all more or less 
closely related to the well-known Sparrow-Hawk of 
Great Britain, which, however, is itself a bird of ex- 
tended geographical range, being found as far east- 
ward as Japan. ‘This well-known species is remark- 
able for the great power and courage which it displays 
in proportion to its size, and was formerly trained for 
hawking the partridge. It was in former times very 
