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smaller than M. musicus, and with the tail-coverts above and below entirely 
white, the wing-coverts and secondaries being entirely ash-colour without 
vermiculated cross bands. J. Cabanis, J. f. 0. 1838 (published in 1809), 
p. 413 ; Id. Von der Decken’s Reisen, iii. 1, pp. 40, 41. 
Meliei'ax poluzonus, its occurrence near Mo^ador. 0. F. Tyrwhitt Drake, 
Ibis, 1809, p. 163. 
Melierax niloticus (Sundevall, Q5fvers. K. Vet.-Ak. Forhandl. 1850, p. 132) 
may be accepted as distinct from the southern and larger M, gahar. J. II. 
Gurney, tom. cit. pp. 288, 289. 
Strigidas. 
Notes on the Brazilian species of this family. C. Euler, J. f. O. 
1869, pp. 242-249. 
Athene cuniculariaf its habits in California. C. S. Canfield, Am. Nat. ii. 
pp. 683-685 ; G. M. Sternberg, op. cit. iii. p. 157. 
Noctua (Athene) spilogastray Heugl. (J. f. 0. 1803, p. 15), is figured. M. 
T. V. Heugl. Orn. Nordost-Afr. tab. iv. 
Surnia fimerea, its occurrence in Scotland. R. Gray, Proc. N. H. Soc. 
Glasgow, i. p. 230. 
Glaucidium, eight species of this genus are difterentiated. J. Cabanis, 
J. f. 0. 1809, pp. 205-208. 
Iliihua poensis (Fraser), young and very old, is figured, for comparison with 
the plumage of middle ago (P. Z. S. 1803, pi. xxxiii). R. B. Sharpe, Ibis, 
1809, p. 194, pi. iv. 
Strix Jiammea is said to hoot, while 8. aluco screeches and rarely if ever 
hoots.” W. G. Sterland, B. Sherwood Forest, pp. 43, 44. \_Cf. Ibis, 1870, 
p. 123.] Figured (cum pull.). J. Gould, B. Gr. Br. pt. xvi. 
Strix wallcri (Zool. Rec. iii. p. 74) is referred to S. Candida, Tickell, and is 
figured. Id. B. Austral. Suppl. pt. v. 
Scops asio and S. ncevia, further remarks (cf. Zool. Rec. v. p. 00] tending 
to prove their specific identity. W. Brewster, Am. Nat. iii. p. 334, 335. 
Scops kennicotti (Zool. Rec.' iv. p. 83) is figured. S. F. Baird, Trans. 
Chicago Ac. Sc. i. pi. xxvi., and, as well as S. jiammeola, D. G. Elliot, B. N. 
Am. pt. xiii. 
Otus capensis, its occurrence at Gibraltar (cf. Naumannia, 1852, i. p. 10). 
H. Irby, P. Z. S. 1809, p. 270. 
Bubo dilloni, Des Murs & Provost, as an examination of the type shows, 
is identical with B. capensis, A. Smith. J. H. Gurney, Ibis, 1809, p. 402 . 
PSITTACI. 
Barboza DU Bocage, j. V. Museu Nacional de Lisboa. Seccjao 
Zoologica. Catalogo das Collec^des Ornithologicas. Psit- 
tad. Lisboa : 1869. 8vo, pp. 7-28. 
A list of the specimens belonging to the Order contained in 
the Lisbon Museum, showing that 204 species are there repre- 
sented. [See Accipitres.^^] 
Arida3. 
Conurus hoffmanni is figured. P. L. Sclater & 0. Salvin, Ex. Orn. pp. 101, 
162, pi. Ixxxi. 
