Notes on Mr. R. B. Sharpe’s Catalogue of Accipitres. 195 
His position in the St.-Petersburg Museum is now filled 
by Modeste Bogdanow, who has lately published a work 
on the Birds of the Caucasus, and whose recently issued 
article on the Birds of the Black-earth Zone of the Volga 
and its Central and Lower valleys contains some excellent 
field-notes. 
XVI.—WNotes on a ‘ Catalogue of the Accipitres in the British 
Museum’ by KR. Bowdler Sharpe (1874). By J. H. 
GURNEY. 
[Continued from ‘The Ibis,’ 1879, p. 470.] 
From the genus Henicopernis, which I last considered, the 
transition is easy to that of Pernis, to which I now propose 
to refer, and, in doing so, to allude first to the only European 
species of the genus, P. apivorus. 
Mr. Sharpe does not mention the Asiatic range of this 
species, and refers but briefly to the southern limits of its 
winter migration, which extend to the African continent and 
have even been known to reach (though very rarely) South 
Africa and Madagascar. 
So far as I know, but one instance (that of a specimen in 
the British Museum) is recorded of the occurrence of Pernis 
apivorus in Madagascar, and but three of its appearance in 
South Africa: one of these birds was obtained by Le Vail- 
lant, and described by him under the name of “ Le Tachard ” 
in the ‘ Oiseaux d’Afrique,’ vol. 1. p. 82; and the other two 
occurred in Natal, as recorded in ‘ The Ibis’ for 1859, p. 240, 
and for 1860, p. 204%. 
Several more northerly African localities where Pernis 
apivorus has been met with as a winter migrant are men- 
tioned in the article on this species in Mr. Dresser’s ‘ Birds 
of Europe, where many details are also given as to its Euro- 
pean habitats, and some relating to its Asiatic range ; but that 
article does not refer to its occurrence in Siberia (where it is 
* One of these Natal specimens is preserved in the Norwich Museum; 
the other I have unfortunately lost sight of, 
