ACCIPITRES. 
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Falconid^e. 
Spilomis rutlmfordi is a new species from Hainan and Siam, distinguished 
from S. cJieela by its smaller size and less robust tarsi, and from S. hido 
by the under surface being less distinctly barred. R. Swinhoe, tom. cit, 
pp. 85, 86. 
Aqidla chrysaetus in Norfolk. H. Stevenson, Tr. Norw. Soc. 1870, p. 69. 
Aquila noimoides occurs in India. II. B. Tristram, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 4. 
Aquila des7mirsi, Verr. (1857), is identical with A. waJilbergi, Sundev. 
(1850). 0. Finsch & G. Ilartlaub, Vog. Ost-Afr. p. 51. 
Aquila nccma and Pandion haliceetus are figured. J. Gould, B. Gt. Br. 
pt. xvii. 
Haliaetus hrooksi is a supposed species from India, which may prove to be 
II. pdagicus. A. Hume, Ibis, 1870, p. 438 j Scrap-Book, p. 255. 
Buteo auguralis [Zool. Rec. iii. p. 73] in Benguela. J. V. B. du Bocage, 
Jorn. Sc. Lisb. ii. p. 335. . - > 
Buteo vulgaris f its food. K. T. Liebe, Zool. Gart. 1870, p. 97. 
Buteo melajiosternon is figured. S. Higgles, Orn. Austr. pt. x^i. 
Circus go7ildi, Bp., identified Avith C. assimilis j but the first name should 
stand. J. II. Gurney, Ibis, 1870, p. 630. 
Milvus major is described as a new species from India. A. Hume, to7n. cit. 
p. 439 Scrap-Book, p, 326. 
Milvus regalis breeding in confinement. A. Naumann, Zool. Gart. 1870, 
p. 318. 
Planus cecrideus, breeding-habits described. G. E. Shelley, Ibis, 1870, p. 149. 
^ Ridgway, R. a new classification of the North-American Falconidce, with 
descriptions of three new species. P. Ac. Philad. 1870, pp. 138-160. 
An elaborate paper, worked out by means of a large series of specimens. 
/ The new species are : — 
CFoIco (^IBjpoti’iorchis^ richai’dsoju^ said to have been hitherto confounded 
with F. columbarius (p. 145), 
(Falco ( Tmnunculus^ hucopterpA from Cuba and St. Domingo j allied to F. 
spa7'vc7'ioidcs, but white underneatli (p. 147), 
^And a bird for which is proposed the new genus 
Onychotes, the type being O. gruebet'if from California (?)\ not unlike Buteo 
fidiginosus in appearance, and easily to be mistaken forTT^p. 149). 
Falco isla7Hlicus inhabits Alaska. Alfred Newton, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 384. 
Falco co7icolo7’j Temm. : ad., jun., and egg figured. O. Finsch & G. Hart- 
laub, Vog. Ost-Afr. frontisp. 
Jlieracidea b7'U7inea is distinct from II novce-zelandice. J. H. Gurney, Ibis, 
1870, p. 634. 
Astur atricaqnllus has occurred in Scotland, R. Gray, Ibis, 1870, p. 292 j 
in Ireland, V. Brooke, to77i. cit. p. 638. 
Astur 77iacrurus is figured. R. B. Sharpe, io77i, cit. pi. iii. 
Accipitcr brevipcs and A. gnbar (?) * near Constantinople. J. II. Elwes & 
T. E. Buckley, to77i. cit. p. 75. 
Accipitcr nisoides is distinct from A. virgatus. E. Blyth, to77i. cit. p. 168. 
Qu. A, niloticus ? cf. Blanford, Zool. & Geol. Abyss, p. 292. 
