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for the European Eough-legged Buzzard is " norvegicits of Latham ;" the names quoted 

 for this species in Latham's 'General Synopsis,' pt. 1, p. 75, are " Falco nortvegicus, 

 Leemius," and "Falco lagojpus, Briin. ; " the ornithology of Briinnich, a binomial treatise, 

 was published in 1764, whilst the work of Leems bears the date of 1767 ; I therefore 

 submit that the specific name of lagopus is cori-ectly used. 



^ There figvu'ed as "Buteo lagopus." 



- There figured as ''Arcliibuteo regalis." 



3 I have given, in my Notes, my reason for applying to this species the specific name 

 of hemiptilopus rather than that of sfrojjkiahis employed by Mr. Sharpe, and also by 

 Messrs. David and Oustalet ; it is worthy of remark that in this species the character of 

 the scutellation on the back of the tarsus approaches nearer to that of the typical Buz- 

 zards than is the case in the American and European species of the genus Archibiiteo. 



* Mr. Sharpe unites A. hemiptilopus and A. cryptogenys, and is perhaps right in 

 doing so, though I consider this a doubtful question, and have discussed it as such in 

 my Notes above referred to. 



