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chap, iv.j “ On Humming-birds ; and chap, v., On the Colours of 
Animals and Sexual Selection.” 
Warren, R. On the Occurrence of some Rare Birds in the Counties of 
Mayo and Sligo. P. Belf. Soc. 1877-78, pp. 61-73. 
WiEPKEN, C. F. Die Wirbelthiere des Hertzogthums Oldenburg ana- 
lytisch bearbeitet. Saugethiere und Vogel. Oldenburg: 1878. 
[Not seen by the Recorder.] 
. [See also Turdus (^Turdidm).'] 
Wood-Mason, J. On the Structure and Development of the Trachea 
in the Indian Painted Snipe ^{Rhynchma capensis). P. Z. S. 1878, 
pp. 745-761, pi. xlvii. 
The author shows by diagrams based on the dissection of a series of 
specimens of both sexes obtained in the Calcutta market, that the trachea 
in the ^ is straight and simple, whilst in the adult ? it is much looped ; 
with important observations on the intermediate ages in both sexes. 
AOOIPITRES. 
V DLTURID^. 
VuUur cinereuSi Notes on; G. M. Sintenis, Orn. Centralbl. 1878, 
p. 146. 
Vultur umhrosus. Details and figures of the bones of this extinct 
species from the Wasatch Eocene, New Mexico ; E. D. Cope, Wheeler’s 
Rep. Surv. W. of 100th Mer. iv. pp. 287-295, pis. Ixvii. figs. 10-18, Ixviii. 
[See Zool. Rec. xii. p. 29]. 
Neophron percnopterus : the first British specimen [Somersetshire] was 
obtained June, 1826, and not October, 1825, as usually stated ; Sir W. C. 
Trevelyan, Tr. North. Dur. vii. pt. i. 
FALCONIDiE. 
Accipiter stevensoni figured; Marquis of Tweeddale, P. Z. S. 1878, pi. 
Ivii. Remarks on ; id. tom. cit. p. 938. 
Aquila clanga and A. pomarina figured ; H. E. Dresser, B. Eur. 
pts. Ixvii. & Ixviii. 
Aquila fulva : on its various stages ; E. Hodek, MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 
1878, pp. 53-57, 73-75, 80-82, 91 & 92. 
Astur henstii juv. figured ; A. Milne-Edwards & A. Grandidier, Ois. 
Madagascar, Atlas, i. 2® pi. xxx. 
Astur etorques figured ; R. B. Sharpe, MT. Mus. Dresd. iii. pi. xxix. 
Asturinula monogrammica. On its singing habits, similar to those in 
Melierax ; J. H. Gurney, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 791. 
. Baza ceylonensis figured ; W. V. Legge, B. Ceylon, pt. i. 
Buteo desertorum. Two examples recorded from Northumberland ; 
J. H. Gurney, Ibis, 1878, p. 118. 
