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ACCIPITRES. 39
FALCONID^E.
Spilornis rutherfordi is a new species from Hainan and Siam, distinguished
from S. cheela by its smaller size and less robust tarsi, and from S. bido
by the under surface being less distinctly barred. R. Swinhoe, torn. cit.
pp. 85, 86.
Aquila chrysaetus in Norfolk. H. Stevenson, Tr. Norw. Soc. 1870, p. 59.
Aquila ncevioides occurs in India. H. B. Tristram, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 4.
Aquila desmursi, Verr. (1857), is identical with A. wahlbergi, Sundev.
(1850). 0. Finsch & G. Hartlaub, Vog. Ost-Afr. p. 51.
Aquila ncevia and Pandion haliceetus are figured. J. Gould, B. Gt. Br.
pt. xvii.
Haliaetus brooksi is a supposed species from India, which may prove to be
H. pelagicus. A. Hume, Ibis, 1870, p. 438; Scrap-Book, p. 255.
Buteo auguralis [Zool. Rec. iii. p. 73] in Benguela. J. V. B. du Bocage,
Jorn. Sc. Lisb. ii. p. 335.
Buteo vulgaris, its food. K. T. Liebe, Zool. Gart. 1870, p. 97.
Buteo melanosternon is figured. S. Diggles, Orn. Austr. pt. xxi.
Circus gouldi, Bp., identified with C. assimilis; but the first name should
stand. J. H. Gurney, Ibis, 1870, p. 536.
Milvus major is described as a new species from India. A. Hume, torn. cit.
p. 439; Scrap-Book, p. 326.
Milvus regalis breeding in confinement. A. Naumann, Zool. Gart. 1870,
p. 318.
Planus ccerulem, breeding-habits described. G. E. Shelley, Ibis, 1870, p. 149.
RIDGWAY, R. A new classification of the North-American Falconidce, with
descriptions of three new species. P. Ac. Philad. 1870, pp. 138-150.
An elaborate paper, worked out by means of a large series of specimens.
The new species are:—
Falco (Hypotriorchis) richardsoni, said to have been hitherto confounded
with F. columbarius (p. 145),
Falco ( Tinnunculus) leueopteryx, from Cuba and St. Domingo; allied to F.
sparverioides, but white underneath (p. 147),
And a bird for which is proposed the new genus
Onychotes, the type being O. grueberi, from California (?), not unlike Buteo
fuliginosus in appearance, and easily to be mistaken for it (p. 149).
Falco islandicus inhabits Alaska. Alfred Newton, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 384.
Falco concolor, Temm.: ad., jun., and egg figured. O. Finsch & G. Hartlaub,
Vog. Ost-Afr. frontisp.
Hieracidea brunnea is distinct from H. novce-zelandice. J. H. Gurney, Ibis,
1870, p. 534.
Astur atricapillus has occurred in Scotland, R. Gray, Ibis, 1870, p. 292;
in Ireland, V. Brooke, torn. cit. p. 538.
Astur macrwus is figured. R. B. Sharpe, torn. cit. pi. iii.
Accipitcr brevipes and A. gabar (P) * near Constantinople. -J. H. Elwes &
T. E. Buckley, torn. cit. p. 75.
Accipiter nisoides is distinct from A. virgatus. E. Blyth, torn. cit. p. 158.
Qu. A. niloticus ? cf. Blanford, Zool. & Geol. Abyss, p. 292.