538 Letters, Announcements, S^c. 



We have named this bird after Mr. Allan Hume, a well-known 

 contributor to your pages, and intend to give a figure of both 

 stages of this bird in our work, now in course of publication. 



Yours, &c., 



C. and G. Marshall. 



London, 20 Sept. 1870. 

 Sir, — Mr. Gurney has called my attention to the following 

 points in my recent paper on Dr. von Heuglin's work. Mr. 

 Gurney considers that Vultur chiacou [supra, p. 422) was founded 

 by Daudin on " Le Chincou " of Levaillant, whose plate repre- 

 sents V. cinereus from China, where it has lately been redis- 

 covered by Pere David. He further informs me that the bird 

 lately brought home from Abyssinia by Mr. Jesse, and named 

 Bubo ascalaphus by Dr. Finsch is really B. dilloni, having ascer- 

 tained this fact by examining the specimen now in Lord Walden^s 

 collection. Lastly, I am quite wrong in suggesting (p. 434) that 

 Lanhis colhirio does not breed in South Africa; for jMr. Andersson 

 found it doing so in several places, as I am informed by Mr. 

 Gurney; and M. Jules Verreaux likewise tells me that he often 

 found the nest in South Africa. I am, &c., 



H. B. Sharpe. 



C'olebrooke, Fermanagh, 

 29 Sept. 1870. 

 Sir, — I have the pleasure of informing you of the occurrence 

 in L'eland of Astur atricapillus — an example of which was sliot 

 in the Galtee Mountains in February last*, and was at first be- 

 lieved to be a common Gos-Hawk, A. pahinibarius ; but, having 

 since had the opportunity of examining some specimens of that 

 species in Lord Lilford^s collection, I immediately detected the 

 difference between them and the Galtee bird. Upon returning 

 to Ireland, with the kind permission of Dr. Carte, I compared 

 it with a specimen of A. atricapillus from the Dublin Society^s 

 collection, and cleared up any doubt that remained in my mind — 

 the closely-set transverse bars, the longitudinal streaks (stronger 



• [An example has also been obtained in Scotland (cf. supra, p. 292) 

 —Ed.] 



