AVES. 
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ACCIPITRES. 
Alleon, Amedfse, & ViAN, Jules. Des Migrations des oiseaux 
de proie siir le Bosphore de Constantinople. Rev. et Mag. 
de Zool. 1869, pp. 258-273, 305-315, 342-348, 369-374, 
401-409. 
A series of observations of very great interest^ one at least of 
the authors having devoted himself for many years to the task 
of watehing the migrant Accipitres on their passages up and 
down the Bosphorus, and having enjoyed great facilities for 
performing it. Upwards of twenty speeies are noticed, one of 
which is announced as new to Europe ; and the series is being 
continued in the journal for the present year. \Cf. Ibis, 1870, 
pp. 60-76.] 
Barboza i)u Bocage, J. V. Museu Nacional de Lisboa. Seccjao 
Zoologica. Catalogo das Collec^oes Ornithologicas. Acci- 
pitres. Lisboa : 1869. 8vo, pp. 30-62. 
The specimens, belonging to 223 species of the Order, con- 
tained in the National Museum at Lisbon are catalogued, and 
a few notes are occasionally interspersed. None of the species 
appear to be new. \_Cf. Ibis, 1870, pp. 134, 135.] 
Farm AN, C. On some of the Birds of Prey of Central Bulgaria. 
Ibis, 1869, pp. 199-204. 
In continuation of the paper before noticed (Zool. Rec. v. 
p. 66), and, like it, relating to 13 species, the most remark- 
able of which are Haliaetus leucorypha (Pall.) (?) and Archibuteo 
lagopuSy which last is more likely to have been Aquila pennata. 
Gurney, J. H. Notes on the Birds-of-prey of Madagascar 
and some of the adjacent Islands. Tom. cit. pp. 443-454, 
pi. xvi. 
This is by way of a commentary on a portion of the ^ Re- 
cherches sur la Faune de Madagascar^ of MM. Schlegel and 
Pollen (Zool. Rec. iv. p. 61, v. p. 47), and must not be neglected 
by any student either of -the subregion or of the group treated ; 
for some of the criticisms, though minute, are important. The 
species enumerated are twenty-eight in number ; the plate re- 
presents Hypotriorchis eleonorce. 
Hume, Allan. My Scrap Book : or Rough Notes on Indian 
Oology and Ornithology. Calcutta : 8vo, pp. 237. 
The portion published relates only to certain diurnal Acci- 
pitres y and consists of all the information in respect to them 
wliich the author has gathered since the appearance of Ur. Jer- 
don^s ^ Birds of India,^ whether printed or unprinted. It neces- 
sarily follows that the innumerable facts recorded are of very 
unequal value ; but the book contains very much that is new. 
Its most important details are briefly mentioned below. 
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