42 Avefi. 
AVES. 
(figured, pi. ii.) exhibited, and live specimens are in the Zoological 
Society’s Gardens ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 23. 
Cory Ills. On the species of this genus, with plate of C. galgulus ; A. 
Prenzel, Monatsschr. deutsch. Ver. Schutze Vogelwelt, 1880, No. 1. 
Cyclop sittacus aalvadorii, sp. n., E. Oustalet, Bull. Ass. Sc. Fr. 1880, 
No, 11, p. 172, North coast of New Guinea. 
Metopsittacus undulatus. Its embryological development; M. Braun, 
Arb. Inst, Wiirzb. [Dec.] 1879, pp. 161-204, pis. viii. & ix. 
STRIGES. 
Gymnoscops insularis^ g. & sp. nn., H. B. Tristram, Ibis, 1880, p. 356, 
figured, pi. xiv., Mah4, Seychelle Islands. 
Ninox terricolor, sp. n., E. P. Ramsay, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. iv. 
p, 466, .Goldie River, S.E. New Guinea. Ninox reyi^ sp. n., distinguished 
from N. philippensis ; E. Oustalet, Bull. Ass, Sc. Fr. 1880, No. 39, p. 206, 
Sooloo Islands. 
Nyctea scandiaca : on the young bred in confinement (p. 144), and on 
the renewed nesting in confinement (p. 471) ; J. H. Gurney, Ibis, 1880. 
Scopa lempiji: on another specimen from Sumatra ; id. tom. cit. p. 217 
[cf. Zool. Rec. xvi. Aves, p. 38]. 
Speotyto cunicularia : Shufeldts’ Memoir on its Osteology, with 3 plates ; 
E. Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v. pp. 129-130, pis. i.-iii. 
Strigops habroptilua : note on this bird and on its skeleton ; E. Des- 
longchamps, Ann. Mus. H, N. Caen, i. pp. 49-53. 
Strix nehulosa alleni, new trinomial for the Florida race ; R. Ridgway, 
Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. i. [March, 1880], p. 8. 
ACCIPITRES. 
Cathaetidj:. 
See Ridgway, R., on Sarcorrhampidce, supra, p. 19. 
Pseudogryphua californianus differs from all other American vultures 
in having 14 rectrices (p. 80), rarity and measurements (p. 82) ; R. Ridg- 
way, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v. 
Cathartea burrovianua : its specific validity re-affirmed (p. 83), and C. 
pernigra, Sharpe, appears to be a good species (p. 84) ; id. tom. cit. 
Falconidac. 
Accipiter virgatua\ remarks on ; R. B. Sharpe, Str. Feath. viii. No. 6, 
pp. 440-442. On A. virgatua and A. gularis ; J. H. Gurney, tom. cit. 
pp. 443 & 444. A. atevenaoni occurs in Sumatra: id. Ibis, 1880, p. 217. 
Aquila rapax, A. chryaactus figured ; H. E. Dresser, B. Eur. pts. Ixxvii.- 
Ixxix. 
Aatur brachyurua, sp. n., E. P. Ramsay, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. iv. 
p. 465, South-eastern New Guinea. 
