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Boucard's " Humming-bird.'" — On looking over the pages 

 of Mr. Boucard's monthly periodical ' The Humming-bird/ 

 of which the volume for 1891 is now complete, we find the 

 following supposed new species of birds described in it : — ■ 

 Phaethornis gouneUei from Brazil ; P. columbianus from 

 Colombia ; P. guianensis from Demerara ; P. whitelyi from 

 Roraima (Whitely) ; Aphantochroa alexandri from Deme- 

 rara ; Florisuga sallei from Southern Mexico ; Eustephanus 

 hurtoni from Chile ; Lampornis obscura from Brazil ; Lafres- 

 naya cinereo-rvfa from Colombia ; Heliangelus henrici from 

 Ecuador ; Pionus bridgesi from Bolivia ; Bellona superba 

 from St. Vincent; Lesbia boliviana from Bolivia; Calliplilox 

 roraimcB from Roraima (Whitely) ; Hylocharis guianensis 

 from Guiana ("Whitely) ; and Ramp/iucelus cbrysopterus frova 

 Panama. Whether these are really new species or not we 

 have no means of judging, but as regards the Trochilidce, to 

 which family most of these belong, we should be inclined to 

 doubt whether Mr. Salvin, who has recently completed his 

 Catalogue of the birds of this group, can have overlooked so 

 many of them, especially as we know that all Whitely's 

 collections have passed through his hands. 



The Sea-Eagles of N.E. Asia. — An article on the Rap- 

 torial Birds in the Zoological Garden, Hamburg, by Dr. 

 Bolau in ' Der Zoologische Garten ' for September last 

 (xxxii. p. 265) contains an account of the specimens of 

 Haliaetus pelagicus and its near ally H. branickii, of which 

 the Hamburg Society are the fortunate possessors*. The 

 first was received in December 1882 from the Amoor, and is 

 now in full adult plumage. The second was obtained from 

 Corea in February 1887, and was for several years supposed 

 to be only the young of H. pelagicus. It is now also adult 

 and is at once distinguishable from its allied form by the 

 want of the white shoulders and white thighs — only the tail 

 being white. There are three fine examples of H. pelagicus 

 in the British Museum, but none of H. branickii. 



* Cf. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1891, p. 374. 



