448 Mr. J. H. Gurney on a New Species of Hawk from China. 
name of my friend Mr. Henry Stevenson, the Honorary Secre¬ 
tary of that Institution, an accomplished ornithologist, and one 
to whose assistance, in the study of the birds of prey, I am in 
many ways much indebted. 
Before proceeding to the description of this interesting little 
Hawk, I may quote the following observations respecting it, for 
which I am indebted to the kindness of my friend Mr. Swinhoe. 
“ In my rambles about Honkong and Canton (of which I wrote 
an account in ‘ The Ibis 3 for 1861) I procured a small Accipiter , 
which was unfortunately lost before being identified. It seemed 
to me at the time distinct from A. soloensis ; and a specimen 
lately received from Macao bears out my former suspicions. Of 
this same species Mr. Fleming, R.A., procured at Tientsin a 
fine male example, which, together with the Macao specimen, 
has been placed in the Norwich Museum. 
“ This small Hawk I found pretty common about the woods 
near Canton, and in the Island of Hongkong; at the former 
place it was breeding (see Ibis, 1861, p. 25). In my ‘ For¬ 
mosan Ornithology/ under the head Micronisus gularis *, I have 
again alluded to the occurrence of this bird in China; and to 
these two notes I must refer the reader for all the information I 
at present can offer about it. The specimen procured from 
Macao was in skin, and I was therefore unable to take any 
observations as to its appearance in a fresh state. I note, 
however, that I have set down the irides as 1 golden yellow/ 
whereas on the ticket Mr. Fleming has attached to his bird 
they are given as *red/" 
“ Perhaps in these small Hawks, as in the Owls, the irides 
deepen as the bird matures.—R. S.” 
The dimensions of the two specimens referred to by Mr. 
Swinhoe (and which I may designate as specimen A from Pekin, 
and specimen B from Macao) agree accurately together, if allow¬ 
ance is made for the skin from Macao having been somewhat con¬ 
tracted during the process of preparation, and are as follows:— 
Total length 
in inches. 
Wing from car¬ 
pal joint to tip. 
Tail. 
Tarsus. 
Middle toe 
and claw. 
in 
6f 
5 
if 
* 
See anted ,, p. 213. 
