236 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Wing from 



carpal joint. Tarsus, 

 in. in. 



Typical Aquila albicans : 



? . Sboa : Britisli Museum 21-3 3-3 



Largest of ten Abyssinian specimens 

 in Britisli and Norwich Museums 



(sex undetermined ) 21'6 3-3 



SmaUest of ditto (ditto) 19-7 3-0 



Aquila vindhiana : 



S . India (W. Ewer) : Norwich Mu- 

 seum 19'8 3'0 



$. Ditto (ditto): ditto 21-1 3-0 



Presumed $ . N.W. India (W. E. 



Brooks): Norwich Museum .... 21-8 3-1 



For tlie sake of comparison I may quote the following 

 measurements of A. vindhiana from Mr. Hume's ' Scrap- 

 book/ p. 178 : — 



Length of 

 wing, 

 in. 



Largest of five males 20'4 



Smallest of ditto 19-5 



Largest of seven females . . . ' 21 '75 



Smallest of ditto 20-75 



XX. — Notices of Recent Publications. 



[Continued from p. 127.] 



13. Mosenthal and Harting's ' Ostrich -farming.' 



[Ostriches and Ostrich Farming. By Julius de Mosenthal and James 

 Edmund Harting. 8vo, pp. 246. London : 1876.] 



The new industry of Ostrich-farmings and the exhibition of 

 the various sorts of feathers in the late Vienna Exhibition^ 

 appear to have suggested the writing of this book, although 

 other motives may have contributed to it. Had the authors 

 confined themselves to their original limits, or extended them 

 only to include an account of the Rheas, the feathers of 

 which alone of the other Struthious birds have any commercial 

 value, the purpose for which the work Avas undertaken would 



