282 REPORT ON ZOOLOGY, MDCCCXLIV. 



P. Gervais has given, iu ' Institut.' p. 293, remarks upon prinio-mundaue 

 Birds, and with them a list appertaining chiefly to France. H. von Meyer 

 acquaints us, in the ' Jahrb. fur Min., S. 331, that the petrified bird's foot 

 from (Eniugen, figured by Karz-, belongs to a member of the order of Strand- 

 Snipes. The Bird from the Glarner chalk formation, is denoted by him, S. 

 338, as Protornis Olarniensis. From the middle Rhine tertiary basin he 

 obtained the fossil idna of a Bird (S. 505.) The Omitholithus from (Eningeu, 

 described in ' Leouhardscheu Taschenb. f. Mm. 1808, was found by H. v. 

 Meyer to be a Frog's bone (Latonia.} 



ACCIPITRES. 



Brehm has communicated his remarks upon the rank 

 and discrimination of several rapacious Birds, in the ' Isis/ 

 S. 488. 



They have reference to the Condors, V-ultur fulmis, Gypautos, Haliaetos, 

 Aquila, Pandion, Circaetos, and Owls. In the Condors he has repeatedly 

 observed that the male is signally larger than the female. In respect to 

 Vultur fulcus, he distinguishes the two varieties of Schlcgel as sub-species, 

 and throws out the suggestion as to whether the riband-like feathers forming 

 the neck-ruff actually pass over with age into the woolly ruff or continue 

 riband-like unto death. 



H. Schlegel et A. H. Verster van Wulverhorst, Trait e de 

 Fauconnerie, Livr. 1. Leyd. 1844. 



Falconry having uow-a-days again got into repute, literature is also, as a 

 matter of course, reoccupied with its treatment. The above part has not 

 yet come to hand, and must be deferred for notice until our next Report ; 

 but, judging from the prospectus given of the work, it is clear that, adorned 

 as it is to be with costly figures, it will prove of equal importance to the 

 hawking sportsman and scientific ornithologist, since it is not merely con- 

 fined to the occupation of the former, but also gives a comprehensive history 

 of this noble kind of sport, with a detailed natural history of the birds 

 therein employed. 



In Gray's Genera of Birds, the Vulturinee, n. 2, Gry- 

 paetse, n. 5, Gypohierax, n. 3, Buteouime, n. 1, and 

 Polyborinse, n. 4, from the order of rapacious Birds have 

 already been treated of. 



