﻿of 
  some 
  Palcearctic 
  Birds. 
  379 
  

  

  some 
  remarks 
  on 
  Lanlus 
  raddti, 
  milil, 
  and 
  considers 
  it 
  pro- 
  

   bably 
  identical 
  witb 
  Otomela 
  bogdanowi, 
  Bianchi, 
  Mel. 
  

   biolog. 
  du 
  Bull, 
  de 
  FAcad. 
  Imp. 
  des 
  Sci. 
  St. 
  Petersbourg, 
  

   tome 
  xii. 
  p. 
  581 
  (1886). 
  In 
  this 
  he 
  is 
  quite 
  correct, 
  for 
  

   Mr. 
  Pleske, 
  of 
  St. 
  Petersburg, 
  who 
  was 
  at 
  my 
  house 
  not 
  

   long 
  ago, 
  examined 
  my 
  specimen, 
  and 
  told 
  me 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  

   identical 
  with 
  Biauchi's 
  bird, 
  of 
  which 
  I 
  was 
  not 
  previously 
  

   aware, 
  not 
  having 
  seen 
  Bianchi^s 
  description. 
  The 
  correct 
  

   name 
  of 
  this 
  Shrike 
  is 
  consequently 
  Lanius 
  bogdanowi 
  

   (Bianchi). 
  

  

  IV. 
  BUTEO 
  MENETRIESI, 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  same 
  " 
  Bericht 
  " 
  Mr. 
  Ehmcke 
  describes 
  as 
  new 
  a 
  

   Buzzard 
  from 
  the 
  Gumbinnen 
  Kreis, 
  under 
  the 
  name 
  Buteo 
  

   zimmermannce, 
  respecting 
  which 
  Mr. 
  Matschie 
  expresses 
  

   the 
  opinion 
  that 
  this 
  form 
  has 
  been 
  already 
  referred 
  to, 
  

   and 
  believes 
  it 
  to 
  be 
  Buteo 
  minor 
  of 
  Ludw. 
  Brehm 
  

   (Naumannia, 
  1855, 
  p. 
  268, 
  descr. 
  nulla). 
  This 
  I 
  doubt, 
  but 
  

   it 
  may 
  possibly 
  be 
  Buteo 
  minor, 
  Heugl., 
  Syst. 
  Uebers. 
  p. 
  5 
  

   (1856), 
  which 
  von 
  Heuglin 
  describes 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  — 
  ^' 
  Gleicht 
  

   dem 
  F. 
  buteo 
  in 
  Farbung 
  vollkommen 
  ; 
  ist 
  aber 
  schlanker 
  

   und 
  wenigstens 
  um 
  ^ 
  kleiner.^ 
  There 
  is, 
  however, 
  I 
  think, 
  

   no 
  doubt 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  the 
  species 
  described 
  by 
  Bogdanow 
  in 
  

   his 
  work 
  on 
  the 
  Birds 
  of 
  the 
  Caucasus 
  (' 
  Ptitsui 
  Kavkaza,' 
  

   p. 
  45, 
  1879) 
  under 
  the 
  name 
  Buteo 
  menetriesi. 
  This 
  form 
  

   is 
  said 
  to 
  be 
  tolerably 
  common 
  in 
  Russia, 
  and 
  I 
  have 
  received 
  

   several 
  specimens 
  of 
  it 
  from 
  Archangel. 
  It 
  is 
  a 
  dark 
  rufes- 
  

   cent 
  form 
  of 
  Buteo 
  desertorum, 
  and 
  in 
  my 
  article 
  on 
  that 
  

   species 
  (B. 
  of 
  Eur. 
  v. 
  pp. 
  457-461, 
  1875) 
  I 
  referred 
  to 
  it 
  a 
  

   specimen 
  from 
  Archangel, 
  from 
  tvliich 
  indeed 
  I 
  cannot 
  

   think 
  Buteo 
  menetriesi 
  should 
  be 
  separated, 
  even 
  subspeci- 
  

   fically. 
  

  

  As 
  Professor 
  Bogdanow 
  's 
  description 
  is 
  in 
  Russian 
  the 
  

   following 
  translation 
  will 
  probably 
  be 
  welcome 
  to 
  most 
  non- 
  

   Russian 
  ornithologists: 
  — 
  ''Female 
  rather 
  larger 
  than 
  the 
  

   male; 
  upper 
  parts 
  with 
  the 
  feathers 
  dark 
  brown, 
  broadly 
  

   margined 
  with 
  rufous, 
  thus 
  giving 
  the 
  back 
  the 
  appearance 
  of 
  

   being 
  rufous 
  with 
  dark 
  brown 
  blotches 
  ; 
  throat 
  and 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  