82 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



Leucopternis superciliaris and L. palliata are both from Brazil, 

 obtained by Natterer, as likewise Buteo minutus, which is, per- 

 haps, not different from Asturina brachyura (Vieill.). 



The report of the thirteenth annual meeting of the German 

 Ornithological Society, held at Stuttgardt in September 1860, 

 of which we promised our readers a further notice some time 

 ago, contains several important papers, to which students of the 

 European Ornis should devote their attention. Of one of the 

 most remarkable of these, from the pen of Dr. Blasius, we have 

 already given a translation in these pages*. The same ex- 

 perienced naturalist has given us a few remarks upon the dif- 

 ferent species of Eagles, contained in a fine series of 99 examples, 

 which was submitted to the meeting for their inspection by the 

 veteran ornithologist Herr Pastor Brehm. Dr. Blasius con- 

 siders the new Spanish Eagle, which was lately discovered by Dr. 

 Beinhold Brehm of Madrid, and by him named Aquila adalberti, 

 to be nothing more than Aquila ncevioides — a '' species found 

 throughout Africa, and already known as occurring incidentally 

 in the Crimea and in Southern France." Mr. Gurney likewise 

 assures us that two examples of this Spanish Eagle lately obtained 

 by him from Dr. R. Brehm are undoubtedly " Aquila na'vioides 

 in the pale worn plumage it constantly assumes before the 

 moult. ^' The regular occurrence of this Bird of prey in any part 

 of Europe is, however, quite a new fact, for the discovery of 

 which we are greatly indebted to Dr. R. Brehm. 



Dr. Blasius tells us that he knows only of 11 good species of 



true Eagles existing in European collections, which he arranges 



as follows : 



A. Omjchaetos, Kaup. 



1. Aquila malayensis, R-einwardt, ex Ind. Or. 



B. Uroa'etos, Kaup. 



2. Aquila fucosa, Cuv., ex Nov. Holl. 



C. Ptera'etos, Kaup. 



3. Aquila vulturina, Daud., ex Afr. Merid. 



* 'Ibis,' 1861, p. 292. 



