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ZOOLOGICAL LITEUATUIIE. 
VULTURIDAS. 
Gyps fulvescens is described as a new species from India, resembling G. 
fulvus, but of a ricli ruddy-bay colour, Avitli conspicuous narrow pale median 
stripes to the feathers beneath, and a short stout bill like G. hengalensis. A. 
Hume, Ibis, 1869, p. 356; Id. Scrap Book, pp. 19-21. 
Gyps himalayensis is the name provisionally given to G. fulvus from the 
Himalayas, should it proove, as is suspected, distinct. Id. op. cit. pp. 12, 
16-17. 
FaLCONIDtE. 
Spizaetus orientalis, Temm. & Schleg., is perhaps only S. nipcdensis, J. H. 
Gurney, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 1. 
Nisaetus honcllii, notes on its nidification in India. A. Hume, Ibis, 1869, 
pp. 143-146. 
Oircaetus zonurus is figured. M. T. v. Heuglin, Orn. Nordost-Afr. t. iii. 
Ihdeo borealis, notes on. W. Wood, Am. Nat. iii. pp. 393-397. 
Huteo ferox, notes on. T. Kriiper, J. f. 0. 1869, p. 29. Its occurrence 
in Italy, 8 April, 1869,. T. S. Salvador!, Atti Soc. Ital. Sc. Nat. 24 Aug. 
1869. 
Buteo fuliginosus is described as a new species from India, of a very deep 
smoky-brown, mingled beneath with dull red, the tail with conspicuous and 
well-defined greyish- white burs. A. Hume, Ibis, 18(>9, p. 356. 
Milvus mehinotis is said to have occurred at Constantinople.* A. Alldon 
& J. Vian, It. Z. 1869, pp. 372-373. [Qu. M. cegyptius? II. J. Elwes & 
T. E. Biicldej^, Ibis, 1870, p. 73, note.] 
Falco islandicui is figured. D. G. Elliot, B. N. Am. pt. xiii. 
Falco atriceps is described as a new species from India, allied to F. peregri- 
nator ; but the head, nape, cheeks and ear-coverts all form one black patch, 
the re.st of the upper surface is as in F. peregrinus, and beneatl] it is marked 
like F. peregrinator. A. Hume, Ibis, 1 869, p. 366 ; Id. Scrap Book, pp. 68-62. 
Falco columbarius, a defence of statements concerning its nidification made 
in a former paper (Zool. Bee. iv. p. 67). T. M. Brewer, Ibis, 1869, p. 243. 
Ilypotriorchis elconorcc (from the coast of Madagascar) is figured. J. II. 
Gurney, tom. cit. pi. xvi. 
Fryihropus vespertinus, its distribution in Bussia. H. Gobel, J. f. 0. 1869, 
pp. 321, 322. Its occurrence in Finland. A. J. Malmgreii, (Efvers. Finska 
Vet.-Soc. Forhandl. 1869, no. 1. Figured. J, Gould, B. Gr. B. pt. xvi. 
Falco raddei [lege raddeei], Ilarth,” is mentioned as a synonym of Fry- 
ihropus amuren is (Zool. Bee. iv. p. 67). M. T. v. Heuglin, Orn. Nordost-Afr. 
i. p. 40; G. Hartlaub, Bericht u. s. w. pp. Ill, 112. [Since included under 
the first name by Drs. Finsch and Hartlaub in the fourth volume of Von der 
Hecken’s ^Beisen’ (p. 74), published in 1870*.] 
Falco semitorquatuSf A. Smith, is figured. M. I', v. Heuglin, Orn. Nordost- 
Afr. t. i. 
Ilieracidea brtmnea is the immature of II. novce-zelandice. W. Buller, 
Trans. & Proc. New Zeal. Inst, i, p. 106. 
Astur pulumbarius (ad. & juv.) is figured. J. Gould, B. Gr. Br. pt. xv. 
* We connot allow this proposed change of a specific name to pass with- 
out protesting against it as a needless and, tlierefore, noxious alteration, which 
we are surprised to find proposed by ornithologists so eminent. 
