118 MILVUS .EGYPTIUS. PERNIS APIVORUS. 



eggs, near the nest of Tadorna rutila, whicli was one of the great prizes 

 obtained by the Algerian triiunvirate (Ibis, vol. i. p. 362).] 



[§ 324. 0/^e,—" South Russia." From Herr A. Heinke, of 

 Kamuschin, through Dr. Albert Giinther, 1863.] 



MILVUS iEGYPTIUS (J. F. Gmehn). 

 ARABIAN KITE. 



[§ 325. 0;?e.— "Egypte." From M. E. Verreaux's Collection, 

 1861.] 



[§ 326. 0/^e.— Egypt, 14 April, 1862. "Bird seen." From 

 Mr. S. S. Allen's Collection. 



The specimen above mentioned was obtained by Mr. Allen ; but that gen- 

 tleman's notes on the breeding of this species are not as yet publiehed. In 

 due time they wiU probably appear in the pag'es of ' The Ibis.'] 



PERNIS APIVORUS (Linn^us). 



HONEY-BUZZARD. 



§ 327. One. — Wellgrove Wood, Oxfordshire, July, 1838. From 

 Mr. AVilmot's Collection, 1856. 



Concerning this egg, just received (11th April, 1856), Mr. Wilmot 

 writes : — " The offering I have just dispatched consists of the fellow 

 Honey-Buzzard^s egg to the one figured hy Mr. Hewitson [Eggs 

 B. B. ed. 3. pi. XV. fig. l] ^ -^ ^. As you wiU see, it is an under- 

 sized, poorly marked egg, that would be valueless but for its 

 being a veritable British-taken one. Indeed I am not aware that 

 there are any other British-taken eggs still extant, except this pair. 

 You will find the history of them in the ' Zoologist,' p. 437. The 

 egg I have sent you is the one my good friend Mr. G. L. Russell 

 had. He is not prosecuting his collection, and therefore let me 

 have it again without reluctance, as indeed he would anything that 



