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Wade, C. H. Notes on the Venous System of Birds. J. L. S. xii. pp. 
531-535. 
A paper intended to l)o preliminary to a more extended series of 
observations on the subject. [Omitted from Zool. Rec. xiii.] 
Weyenbergti, H. Vogel, in R. Napp's “ Die Argentinische Republik, ’ 
Buenos Aires: 1876, 8vo, pp. 156-163. 
Wharton, H. T. A List of British Birds, the Genera arranged accord- 
ing to Sundevall’s Method. The Nomenclature revised by the 
Author. London : 1877, 12mo, pp. 20. 
Whyte, A. Ornithological Notes taken during a Voyage from Ceylon 
to England. Ibis, 1877, pp. 148-151. 
Remarks on land and other birds observed in the Indian Ocean and 
Red Sea. 
. Notes on Captain Legge’s Paper on Additions to the Ceylon 
Avifauna. Str. Feath. 1876, p. 201. 
Wiepken, C. F. Zur Vogelfauna der Nordsee-Insel Wangerooge. J. f. O. 
1877, pp. 426-431. 
WusTNEi, C. Ornithologische Notizen aus Mecklenburg. Tom. cit 
pp. 31-35. 
A notice of the species found in that duc.hy, with their local names. 
ACCIPITRES. 
VuiiTURID;E. 
VuUuridoi: Geographical Distribution of ; R. B. Sharpe, J. L. S. xiii. 
pp. 1-26, pis. i.-ix. 
Gyps africanus figured ; B. du Bocage, Orn. Angola, pt. i. pi. ix. 
Neophron perenopterus figured ; O. Riesenthal, Raubv. Deutschl. 
pi. xlvii. 
Vultur monachus (pi. xlviii.), F. fulvus (pi. xlix.) figured ; id. 1. c 
V. auricularis \ its nesting in confinement; J. H. Gurney, Ibis, 1877» 
p. 237. 
FalCONIDJ]. 
See Gurney, supra, p. 11. 
Accipiter nisus in Burma ; W. Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, pp. 454. 
Aquila adalherti, its changes of plumage described; J. H. Gurney, 
Ibis, 1877, pp. 219-221. A. culleni identified with A. rapax\ id. tom. cit. 
pp. 227-230. A. albicans, Abyssinia, distinguished from A. rapaz\ id. 
tom. cit. pp. 230-233. 
Aquila clanga [A . nipalensis], young in down figured; A. Marchand, 
R. Z. (3) V. p. 356, pi. cxli. 
Aquila fulvescens considered a distinct species and fully described ; 
J. H. Gurney, Ibis, 1877, pp. 325-329. 
Aquila imperialis (pis. xxxiv. & xxxv.), A. fulva (pi. xxxvi.), A. 
