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groups being given. Among the Crows, the “ mammillae ” in transverse 
sections of the egg-shell of Corvusf rug Hens and C. monedula yield very 
closely approximate results. The egg-shell in Corvua cor one and C. cornix 
has been subjected to a detailed investigation, with the result that the 
minute mammillae are proportionately far larger in the former than in the 
latter species. [^CorvidceJ] 
Newton, A. Eier. “ Die zweite Deutsche Nordpolarfahrt ” (Leipzig : 
1874, 8vo.) ii. Zoologie, 5, pp. 240-243 (translated by G. Hartlaub). 
Eggs of Plectrophanes nivalis, Lagopus rupestris, Mgialitis hiaticula, 
Calidris arenaria, Sterna arctica, Larus glaucus, and Somateria mollissima, 
recorded from E. Greenland. 
Panceri, P. Cryptogams in the Interior of Eggs. Q. J. Micr. Sci. 
xiv. p. 178. 
Records the growth of a fungus within the shell of a fresh egg (Os- 
trich). From experiments, the author finds the unbroken shell perme- 
able to fluids, and states that he has succeeded in introducing germs 
from an affected egg to the interior of a sound one. 
Robinson, J. Minute egg-shaped deposits on shell of hen’s egg. Tom. 
cit. p. 107. 
AOOlPITRES. 
Brooks, W. E. Notes on some European and Asiatic Eagles. Ibis, 
1874, pp. 84-87. 
Aquila fulvescens, Gray, A. vindhiana, Frankl., and A. n(Bvioides,Guy., 
are three distinct species; A. orientalis, Cab., = A. hifasciata, Gray, and 
A. hastata, Less., = A. maculata (Gm.). 
Haast, j. On Harpagornis, an extinct genus of gigantic raptorial birds 
of New Zealand. Tr. N. Z. Inst. vi. pp. 62-75, pis. vii.-ix. 
Describes an^ figures various bones of this huge raptorial form, of 
which two species are now recognized, H. moorii [Zool. Rec. ix. p, 38] 
and H. assimilis, sp. n. 
Sharpe, R. Bowdler. Catalogue of the Accipitres or Diurnal Birds of 
Prey in the collection of the British Museum. London : 1874, 8vo, 
pp. 480, pis. i.-xiy. 
377 species are described in the present volume, which contains at the 
same time synoptical tables of the families, genera, and species. IQf. 
Hume, Str. Feath. ii. pp. 601-503.] 
. Contributions to a history of the Accipitres or Birds of Prey. 
I. On the females of the Common and South African Kestrels. 
P. Z. S. 1874, pp. 680-584, pis. Ixviii. 
A female Kestrel with a blue tail is noticed from England, and fresh 
specific characters are drawn up between Cerchneis tinnunculus and C. 
rupicola. 
Sundevall, Carl J. Forneyad anordning ar Dagrovfoglarna (Dispo- 
sitio nova Accipitrum Hemeroharpagorum). Qilfv. Ak. Forh. 1874, 
pp. 21-39. 
