accipitrinjt;. 205 



joint) from 9J to 7^ inches. The feathers of the throat appear each 

 of them always to have a dark shaft-streak. 



Figures : Dresser, Birds of Europe, v. pis. 355, 356, 357, 358. 



The Common Sparrow-Hawk is a resident in all the Japanese 

 Islands. It has frequently heen recorded from Yezzo (Whitely, Ibis, 

 1867, p. 194), and there are fifteen examples in the Pryer collection 

 from Yokohama. It is also common at Nagasaki (Blakiston and 

 Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 1882, p. 183), where the examples 

 obtained by the Siebold Expedition were probably obtained (Tem- 

 minck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, p. 4), and whence a 

 large series has been sent by Mr. Ringer to the Norwich Museum. 



The range of the Common Sparrow-Hawk extends from the British 

 Islands across Europe and Siberia to Japan. 



192. ACCIPITER GULARIS. 



(CHINESE SPARROW-HAWK.) 



AiUir {Nisus) gutaris, Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, p. 6 

 (1845). 



The Chinese Sparrow-Hawk is smaller than the Common species 

 (wing from carpal joint 8^ to 65 inches). It has a line of black 

 streaks down the centre of the throat, which in the female aad 

 young male is separated from the moustachial streaks by an unstreaked 

 longitudinal band. 



Figures : Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, pi. 2 ; 

 Gurney, Ibis, 1863, pi. 11. 



The Chinese Sparrow-Hawk was first described in 1845 by Tem- 

 minck and Schlegel, in the ' Fauna Japonica.' In 1847 it was re- 

 described from Malacca under the name of Accipiter nisoides (Blyth, 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xvi. p. 727), and again in 1863 from China 

 as Accipiter stevensoni (G-urney, Ibis, 1863, p. 447). 



It is found in all the Japanese Islands. The Perry Expedition 

 obtained examples at Hakodadi (Cassin, Exp. Am. Squad. China 

 Seas and Japan, ii. p. 219), and several examples have been since 

 procured in Yezzo (Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 

 1882, p. 184). There are five examples in the Pryer collection from 

 Fuji-yama, near Yokohama, and there are others in the Norwich 

 Museum obtained by Mr. Ringer at Nagasaki (Gurney, Diurnal 

 Birds of Prey, p. 165). 



