466 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



In the work last mentioned the Haliastur inhabiting China 

 is mentioned as having " la tete, le cou, et la poitrine d'un 

 blanc pur et plus ou moins marques d'etroites rales brunes." 

 Whether the Chinese bird is referable to H. indus or to H. 

 intermedins, I am unable to say ; but in any case the localities 

 where it occurs are more northern than any of those quoted 

 for either race by Mr. Sharpe^ and are thus defined by the 

 Abbe David in the volume to which I have just referred : — 

 " Je Fai rencontre et pris an Tchekiang et au Kiangsi^ ou il 

 niche sur les grands arbres . . . . il disparait de ces provinces 

 pendant I'hiver et se retire dans la Cochinchine/^ 



I may add, with reference to the subject of geographical 

 distribution, that the Norwich Museum possesses an imma- 

 ture Haliastur from Camboja; but the bird is too young to 

 enable me to say to which subspecies it should be referred. 



Some details as to several islands inhabited by H. inter- 

 medins and H. yirrenera, additional to those furnished by 

 Mr. Sharpe, will be found in Count Salvadori's ' Prodromus 

 Omithologise Papuasise et Moluccarum/ Accipitres, pp. 3, 4, 

 where three localities not mentioned by Mr. Sharpe are also 

 given for the sole remaining species of the genus Haliastur, 

 H. sphenurus ; these are Yule Island, and also the rivers Fly 

 and Katau, in the southern part of New Guinea. 



I have only to add, with regard to this latter species, that 

 Mr. Sharpens description of the young bird as being " much 

 paler "than the adult, must, I think, have been taken from 

 a faded specimen, as an immature bird in the Norwich 

 Museum is decidedly darker than the adults in the same 

 collection, with the exception of the pale tips to the feathers 

 of the mantle. 



[To be continued.] 



XXXVIII. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 

 46. ' Bulletin ' of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. 

 The April and July numbers of this journal contain a full 

 budget of papers on North-American birds, besides notices of 



