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copious references, not only as to its range in Russia, hut as 

 regards the various other countries where it is found. If we 

 divide ornithologists into two races, the '^splitters^^ and the 

 " lumpers/' M. Monzbier decidedly belongs to the former. 

 For example, to the four subspecies into which Brehm " split " 

 the Peregrine Falcon our author adds a fifth, Fatco peregrinus 

 breyirostris. He also figures, and probably describes, a new 

 species of Hierofaico under the name of H. uralensis, which 

 he apparently identifies with the Falco gyrfalco of Linn., apud 

 Radde (Reis. Siid. OstSibir. ii. p. 98) . His figure is obviously 

 that of a bird of the year, but whether of a Gyrfalcon or of 

 a Saker it is difficult to determine. The Golden Eagle is 

 split into three species, Aquila chrysaetos, Linn., A. nobilis, 

 Pall., and A.fulva, var. alptnu, Sev. The Steppe-Eagle fares 

 no better, being subdivided into A. orientalis, Cab., A. bifas- 

 ciata, Gray, and A. glitschii, Sev. In this case the author 

 is strictly logical. If the Spotted Eagle be divided into four 

 species, why should not the Steppe-Eagle, which presents as 

 much local or climatic variation, be equally honoured ? The 

 author recognizes A. pennata as distinct from A. minuta. It 

 is difficult to say what his Milviis glaucopus, Eversm., can be. 

 Besides the coloured plate of Hierofalco uralensis already 

 alluded to, the work is further embellished with plates of adult 

 and young Peregrines — the former under the name of Falco 

 abietinus, Bechst., var. griseiventris, Brehm, and the latter 

 under that oi Falco peregrimis leucogenys. Three plumages of 

 the Steppe-Eagle [Aquila orientalis, Cab.) are figured, as well 

 as a very rufous Buteo vulpinus, Licht. (Buteo desertorum). The 

 first plate is that of Parus pleskii,YSir., a form which apparently 

 differs from the typical examples of this species in having 

 no black on the throat. 



16. Meyer on the Nestling-Plumage of Eclectus. 



[Ueber die Farbung der Nestjungen von Eclcctiis (Wagl. ). Von A. B. 

 Meyer. Zeitsch. f. wissensch. Zool. xxxvii. p. 146.] 



The nestlings of E. polychlorus [this much-vexed species 

 has, within only eight years, been treated of in more than 70 



