PSITTACI — ACCIPITRES. 
Aves 45 
Tanygnathus megalorrlujnchus var. n. sumbensis, A. B. Meyer, Verb. z.-b. 
Wieu, xxxi. p. 762, Sumba, 
Trichoglossus rubrigularis, sp. n., P. L. Sclater, P. Z. S., 1881, p. 451, 
New Britain. T. nigrigularis figured, T. Salvadori, Voy. ‘ Challenger,* 
Zool. ii. pt. viii. Aves, pi. xx. 
STRIGES. 
Strigidce: R. Collett, Forh. Selsk. Chr. 1881, No. 3, pp. 1-38, dis- 
cusses the crania of the North European species, 10 in number, and 
illustrates his remarks by 3 plates and woodcuts. A table of arrange- 
ment shows that these 10 species fall into 6 groups, 4 of which have 
symmetrical skulls, whilst in group 5, comprising Syrnium uralense and S. 
lapponicum, the skull is slightly, and in group 6, Nyctale tengmalmi, it is 
highly, asymmetrical. 
Bubo virginianus : a bird obtained in the County of Waterford in 1851 , 
identified as belonging to this species ; R. J. Ussher, Zool. 1881, p. 308. 
Nyctale acadica : on its nesting in Massachusetts ; W. Brewster 
(pp. 143-145) and N. A. Francis (p. 185), Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi. 
Speotyto cunicularia var. hypogcea ; its osteology ; R. W. Shufeldt, 
Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. vi. pp. 87-117, pis. i.-iii. 
Strix aurantia [sic], sp. n., T. Salvadori, Atti Ac. Tor. xvi. p. 619, New 
Britain. 
Syrnium biddulphiy sp. n., J. Scully, Ibis, 1881, p. 423, figured, pi. xiv. 
Gilgit. 
ACCIPITRES. 
Cathartid.®. 
See SiiUFELDT, R. W., for Anatomy. 
Sarcorrhamphus gryphus : on its breeding in the Dresden Zoological 
Gardens; A. Schopf, Zool. Gart, 1881, pp. 161-163. 
FALCONIDiE. 
Falconidce. See Shufeldt, R. W., for Anatomy. 
Aquila chrysaetus : its habits in Scotland described (pp. 6) and 4 pro- 
gressive stages of plumage figured ; E. Booth, ‘ Rough Notes,’ pt. i. 
Buteo brachyurus and B. fulginosus [the question as to whether the 
latter is a melanistic phase of the former is discussed at great length, in 
consequence of specimens of this tropical form having recently been 
obtained in Florida] ; R. Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi. pp. 207-214. 
Buteo solitarius figured ; P. L. Sclater, Voy. ‘ Challenger,’ Zool. ii. pt. viii. 
Aves, pi. xxi. 
Cerchneis : the species included by R. B. Sharpe under this genus are 
considered to belong to the subgenera Dissodectes, Tinnunculus, and Ery- 
thropus] J. H. Gurney, Ibis, 1881, p. 277. 
