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ACCIPITRES. 
Brehm, who, as he mentioned in the Isis, 1842, p. 418, was 
very naturally astonished, that the Condor stood alone without 
sub-species, has had the happiness to trace out and distinguish 
two s^i&-species. 
1. Sarcoramphus gryphus, Linn.; much larger than VtiltuT cinereua. 
In old age both sexes have a silver-white band of an inch in breadth, 
passing through above the white shield of the wings : 2. condor, Br. ; 
size of the Vultur fxdvus. Both sexes in old age have a silver-white 
wing-shield, over which there is no white band, or at least only an 
imaginary one. 
Brehm has added a new species to his Vultures, formerly described 
in the Isis, p. 509, Vtdtur isabellimis, which he distinguishes by the 
Isabella colour from similar Vultures, and which must belong to the 
West of Europe. 
Lafresnaye, in the Rev. Zool. p. 173, has quite unnessarily made a 
particular genus, Harpy haliaetos, from the Harpyia coronata, Vieill. 
Lesson (ibid. p. 378) has distinguished another genus, with the name 
Carnifex, which SundevaU had already bestowed upon a Pipra : in its 
principal marks, it is like Herpetotheres, but differs by its long and 
strong tarsi, and the shortness of its wings, in proportion to the length of 
its tail. He adds to it a new species, C. naso, from Central America. 
Brehm has been successful in dividing our Osprey into five species — 
1. Pandion alticeps, Br. : 2. P. medium, Br. : 3. P. planiceps, Br. ; 
4. P. cdhigulare : 5. P. fasciatum. (Isis, p. 425.) 
The following species of Eagles are represented in Gould’s Birds of 
Australia, parts 6-9 : — Aquila fucosa, Cuv., and A. morphnoides, Gould 
(both in part 7) ; Buteo melanosternon (part 9) ; Elanus axillaris, 
Lath., and E. scriptus, Gould (ibid.) ; Accipiter torquatus, Cuv., 
(part 6) ; Astiir approximans, Vig., and A. crtienttis, Gould; Milvus 
affinis, Gould (part 6). None of these species are new, as even those 
described by Gould were characterized by him previously in the Proceed- 
ings of the Zoological Society. 
A. Smith has represented two species of Owls, in the Illus- 
trations of South Africa, No. 15. 
1. Buho capensis, Smith ; a young specimen, whose specific difference 
from our Screech-owd is not yet proved ; 2. Athene Woodfordi, Smith ; 
supra rubro-brunea, maculis fasciisque albis notata, infra pallide rubro- 
brunea, fasciis albis variegata ; cauda rubro-brunea, 7-8 fasciis pallide 
flavo-brimeis, rostro pedibusque flavis ; length 13|". 
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