'36 Aves, 
AYES. 
cised by A. Newton, ‘Nature,’ xix. p. 433. For further controversy, see 
tom. cit. p. 579, and op. cit. xx. p. 97 (Gatke). 
Weyenbergh, D. H. Informe sobre una excursion zoologica k Santa 
F^, practicada en 1876. Period. Zool. Argent, iii. pp. 39-64 ; also 
Bob Ac. Cordoba, ii. pp. 217-243, 273-289. 
Remarks on the birds observed. 
Wharton, Henry T. On the Orthography of some Birds’ Names. 
Ibis, 1879, pp. 449-464. [See Gracidce, Hirundinidoi, Trochilidce^ 
Anatidce, Picidce, Scolopacidce.'] 
Wolf, Theodor. Ein Besuch der Galdpagos-Inseln. Heidelberg ; 
1879, 8vo, pp. 41. 
Wood, J. G., in a new edition (London : 1879) of “ Wanderings in South 
America” by Charles Waterton, gives an Appendix with supposed 
identifications of the Birds mentioned by their local names in the 
original work. 
Wood, William. The [Rapacious] Birds of Connecticut. [See Bull, 
Nutt. Orn. Club, v. p. 113.] 
Wright, E. P. Animal Life ; with illustrations. London : 1879, roy. 
8vo, Aves, pp. 223-347. 
A compilation abounding with errors, as regards the Birds. 
ACCIPITRES. 
V ULTURID^. 
Neophron percnopterus figured ; H. E. Dresser, B. Eur. pts. Ixxiii. & 
Ixxiv. 
FALCONIDiE. 
Accipiter hawaii, sp. n., S. B. Dole, Hawaiian Annnal, 1879, p. 43, 
Hawaii. 
Archibuteo hemiptilopus, Blyth : on an unusually rufescent example ; 
J. H. Gurney, Ibis, 1879, pp. 178-180, Thibet. 
Astur sharpii, sp. n., E. Oustalet, Bull. Soc. Philom. (6) ii. p. 25, Mari- 
anne Islands. [Omitted from Zool. Rec. xii.] 
Astur sharpii, sp. n. [nec Oust.], distinguished from A. cruentus, 
Gould ; E. P. Ramsay, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. iii. p. 173, Port Moresby ; 
T. Salvadori, Ibis, 1879, p. 319, doubts its validity. 
Buteo pcecilochrous, sp. n., J. H. Gurney, Ibis, 1879, p. 176, Yaua- 
[? Yana]-yacu, Ecuador. B. menetriesi, sp. n., M. Bogdanow, “ Tr. Soc. 
Kazan,” viii. 4, p. 45, Caucasus. B. zonocercus : first authentic eggs 
obtained, in Texas ; W. Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv. p. 80. 
Circus melanoleucus figured ; J. Anderson, Yunnan Exp. ii. pis. xlv.- 
xlvi. C. cyaneus figured ; H. E. Dresser, B. Eur. pts. Ixxv. & Ixxvi. 
