PEOCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 317 



1880— Continued. 



Do flying fish fly? By David S. Jordan. <Amer Naturalise, vol. xiv, No. 

 11, pp. 804-805, November, 1880. 



[Observations on Exocoetus caii/onucws Cooper.] 

 On the flight of the flying flsh. By C. O. Whitman. <The Zoologist, Lon- 

 don, Third Series, vol. iv, No. 47, November, 1880, pp. 471-481. 

 ["From the Amer. Naturalist for September. Slightly abridged."] 

 Description of a new species of A^offrftmoifZ shark (Hexanchtis corhuis), from thg 

 Pacific coast of the United States. By David S. Jordan and Charles H. 

 Gilbert. <Proc. U. S. Nat. Museum, iii, pp. 352-355, Nov. 23-Dec. 21, 1880. 

 [Heptranchias maculatus, described on pages 353 and 354, Soinniosxis tnicroceiihalus, 

 Lamna cormibica, and Eulamia sp. are noted as additions to the list of sharks on the Pa- 

 cific coast.] 



An introduction to the Study of Fishes. By Albert C. L. G. GUnther, M. A., 

 M. D., Ph. D., F. R. S., Keeper of the Zoological Department in the British 

 Museum. Edingburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1880. 

 I West coast species are frequently referred to. ] 



CATAIiOOUE OF OI^D TFORIiD BIRD!>i IN THJE: UIVITEI) J^TATfS 

 NATIONAL, MUSEUM. 



By ROBERT RIDGWAY. 



The following list includes all the species of extra -American birds at 

 present represented iu the collection of the U. S. iSTational Museum, 

 numbered, named, and classified according to Gray's "Hand-list."* 



The object of this list is to render apparent the desiderata of the 

 National Museum in the way of Old World birds, so that museums or 

 individuals desiring to make exchanges may know what species are 

 wanted. Genera and subgenera not now in the collection, are the 

 chief desiderata, and as many as possible of them are desired, especially 

 of forms belonging or nearly related to groups which are represented iu 

 the American avian-fauna. 



Fam. GYP^TID^ (I, p. 1). 

 1. Gypaetus harbatus. 



Fam. VULTUEID^. 

 Subfam. Vulturin^e (I, j). i). 

 3. Vultur monachus. 

 5. Otogyps auricularis. 

 8. Gyps fulvus. 

 11. hengalensis. 



Subfam. NEOPiiRONiNiE (I, p. 4). 

 21. Neophron percnojiterus. 

 Fam. FALCONIDiE. 

 Subfam. Buteonin^ (I, p. 6). 

 36. Buteo vulgaris. 

 38. plumipes. (Juv.) 



81. Archihuteo lagopus. 



84. asiaticus. (Juv.) 



85. hemilasius. (Juv.) 



Subfam. Aquiline (I, p. 10). 



87. Aquila chrysaetos. 



88, imperialis. 



91. clanga. 



92. n.'Bvia. 



99. Pseudaetus bonelli. 

 100. Hieraaetus peunatus. 

 119. Circaetus gallicus. 

 128. Spilornis holospilus. 

 131. Pandion haliactus. 

 139. Poliornis poliogenys. (Juv.) 

 144. HaliajiJtus albicilla. 

 14G. Thalassoaetus jielagicus. (Juv. ) 



* Hand-list of the Genera and Species of Birds, distinguishing those contained in 

 the British Museum. By G. R. Gray, F. R. S., etc., Assistant Keeper of the Zoological 

 Collections. 3 vols. 8vo. London : 1869-1871. 



