AVES; 91 
RamsAy, Edward P. Note on the Nidificatioh of Mirdfra 
fieldi. Op. cit. pp. 689, 690. 
It seems to resemble that of the ordinary Ataudidce. 
Seidensacher, E. Ueber das Ei des kurzbeinigen Spel'bers, 
Astur hrevipes s. dussumieri, Falco hadius. [Cf. Zool. Re- 
cord, i. p.65.) Reprinted Jonrn. fiii* Orn. 1865, pp. 464-466. 
Eggs of Phasianus so&mmermgi and Ceriornis satyra exhibited. P. L. 
Sclater, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 256. 
Eggs of Elanoides furcatuS) Nucifraga caryocatactes, Eidunculus strigi- 
rostrisj Phalaroptts fulicarius, Opisthocomus cristatusj Mareca americanay and 
Fulix affinis were exhibited or described. A. Newtoilj P. Z. S. 1865, p. 266. 
Eggs and nest of Totanm ochropus are figured. J. Gould, B. G. B. part viii. 
Eggs and nest of Cisticola schcenicola are described and figured. G. LUnel| 
Bull. Soc. Orn. Suisse, i. pp, 9-30, pi. i. 
Accipitres. 
VULtURlDA:. 
Vuitur auricidaris, from North-eastern Africa (P. nuhicus. Smith), h^ the 
ear- wattle hardly at all developed and the occiput slightly feathered, differ- 
ing in these respects from specimens from the Cape Colony. P. L. Sclater^ 
P. Z. S. 1866, p. 675. 
Gyps africanus is the name bestowed upon African specimens hitherto 
confounded with (r. hengalensis. They have the beak coinpressed, elongated, 
and quite black, and are of a greyish cream-colour. The species is supposed 
(Sitzmigsb. Akad. Wien, 1856, p. 256) to have been before designated 
Vidtur moschatus by Puke Paul of Wiirtemberg. T. Salvadori, Gazz. tJffic. 
del Regno dTtalia, 1865, ho. 126 (Adunahza della Classe di Sci Eis. e Ma- 
temat., R. Accad. delle Scienze di Torino, 7 May, 1866). 
Neophron percnopterus (?), from Calcutta, has the whole bill and claws 
white. (This is the Vidtur ginginianus of Latham. Cf. Ibis, 1866^ pp. 233^ 
234.) P. L. Sclaterj Pi Z. S. 1865> p. 676. 
Ealconid;e. 
The supposed occurrence of llaliaetus albicilla m North America (P. Z. S* 
1863) p. 261) proves to be a mistake. The birds obtained in Nova Scotia 
and Newfoundland turned out to be H. leucocephalusi P. L. Sclater^ P, Z. S; 
1865, p. 731. 
Aquila ncevia is figured. J. Wolf, Zool. Sketches, 2nd series, 
Aquita n<xvioides has been seen several times in Spain, and is figured in two 
staged of plumage. Lord Lilford, Ibis, 1866, pp. 172, 173, pi. v; This speciesj 
under the name of A. adalhertiy has been before mentioned as occurring there. 
P. L. Sclater, tom, cit, pp. 369, 360. ( Cf. Ibis, 1863, p. 362.) 
Milvago crassirostrisj Pelz. (Sitzungsb. Acad. Wien, 1861, pt 9) is further 
described and figured. A. v. Pelzeln, Reise Novara, Vogel, pp; 3-6) tab. i. 
Polyhoruk ciuduhoni is described as a new sjiecies from Texas and Mexico, 
founded on the type-specimen of the P. vulgaris and i* hrasilitmis of Au-* 
