Recent Ornithuloyical Publications. 



81 



Accipitres .... 27 



Passeres 164 



Scansores 16 



ColumbEe 5 



Struthiones . ... 1 

 Galling . . ... .12 



Grallae 56 



Anseres 44 



In conclusion, characters are given of the new species dis- 

 covered by V. HeugHn, most of which have already been described 

 elsewhere. It is doubtless well known to many of our readers 

 that this energetic traveller has started again for Africa, and is 

 at the present moment in Dar-Four, being in command of the 

 expedition despatched to succour, if possible, or at least to ascer- 

 tain the fate of the unfortunate Dr. Vogel. 



In Part viii. of the same Journal (August 1861) will be found 

 some observations on the Vertebrates of Northern Egypt and 

 Stony Arabia*, made by Th. v. Heuglin during the progi*ess of 

 his new expedition through those countries in March, April, and 

 May of the past year. His stay in Lower Egypt having taken 

 place during the breeding season has enabled him to procure 

 some interesting specimens, for a list of which see p. 311. Cu- 

 rious is the discovery of a pair of Podiceps auritus breeding in 

 the Lake of Tamieh in Faguin. " There are no House-Spar- 

 rows in Suez and Ain Mousa, or generally in the cities on the 

 Red Sea." 



The * Sitzungsberichte ' of the Imperial Academy of Sciences 

 of Vienna for June last contains a paper by H. A. v. Pelzeln 

 on some new Rapacious birds of the Imperial Collection f. Ca- 

 thartes uruhitinga (the specific term being taken from Natterer's 

 MS.) is, if we understand rightly, the Brazilian species com- 

 monly, but we believe incorrectly, identified with Cathartes aura. 

 Milvago crassirostris, said to be from Chili, resembles M. mon- 

 tanus, but has a stronger bill and a rather broad white band 

 extending "ab aire flexura ad axillam." Herr v. Pelzeln does 

 not seem to notice M. albogularis (Gould) or M. ca7-unculatus 

 (Des Murs), both, we believe, good species of the same section. 



* Einige Bemerkungen liber die Wirbelthiere des nordlichen ^Egyptens 

 und des PetrJiischen Arabiens, &c., von Th. v. Heuglin. Peterman's Geogr. 

 Mitth. 1861, p. 316. 



t Ueber neue und weniger bekannte Arten von Raubvogeln in der Kaiser- 

 lichen Sammlung. Von A. v. Pelzeln, Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, xliv. p. /• 

 VOL. IV. G 



