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of the outermost pair being faintly visible. The lesser and 
median lower wing coverts are very pale fulvous, or creamy 
white, with a tinge of fawn. The larger lower coverts, are 
nearly pure white with a few imperfect faint, narrow, grey 
bars. ‘The under surface of the quills is nearly pure white, 
greyish at the tips of all but the earlier primaries, which are 
dusky, and all with the incomplete bars on the inner webs, 
showing through; strongly on the earlier primaries, and very 
feebly on the later secondaries. 
Norre.—There is another nearly allied species, Micronisus 
Brevipes, in regard to which the following remarks appeared in 
the [bis for 1865 :— 
“Dr. Kruper has made another valuable discovery also relat- 
ing to a rare and hitherto somewhat obscure European bird of 
prey. In the ‘Bulletin’ of the Moscow Society of Naturalists 
for 1850 (ii pp. 234-239) M. N. Severzow described, under the 
name of Astus Brevipes, a new species of Sparrow Hawk of which 
he had obtained three examples from the Government of Voroney 
in Southern Russia; and Herr Seidensacher has communicated 
to the Vienna Transactions (the paper beimg reprinted in the 
Journal fiir Ornithologie, p. 464) the intelligence that in May 
1864, Dr. Kruper found a nest with four eggs of this little- 
known bird near Smyrna. Dr. Sclater kindly informs us that, 
when he was at Vienna last autumn, he became aware that 
Astur Brevipes was no other than the Accipiter Gurneyi, founded 
on examples received from Beyrout (Ibis, 1859, p. 390) and 
described and well-figured by Dr. Bree (B. Eur. LV. p. 158) 
of which mention has before been made in this Journal (Lbis, 
1863, p. 463) and Mr. Gurney has written to us to corroborate 
this identification. But what is still more interesting, Mr. 
Gurney finds that the ‘specimens obtained in Galilee by Mr. 
Tristram, and supposed by him (P. Z. 8S. 1864, p. 429) to be 
the A. Sphenurus of Ruppell, also belong to this species. ‘This 
discovery was made just in time to insert the right specific name 
in the paper on the Ornithology of Palestine’ printed in our pre- 
sent number (supra p. 260) though not soon enough to admit 
of Mr. Tristram’s there giving an explanation of the facts of the 
case. ‘The species, however, as we are informed by Mr. Gurney, 
should be referred to the genus Micronisus, and accordingly will 
take its place as Micronisus Brevipes (Severzow). All we at pre- 
sent know of its history, may be condensed into these few words, 
that it occurs in Southern Russia from April to August, and 
probably breeds there, as it certainly does in Asia Minor, and. 
that it has been met with once in Greece and several times in 
Syria, Herr Seidensacher considers Iicronisus Brevipes to he 
