Til K GENERAL SUBJECT, FALCONES. Aves 21 
Yorderman, A. G. Batavische Yogels. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xli. 
pp. 181-211, xlii. pp. 1-97 & 192-239. 
Articles on the life-liistory of Javan birds. 
Williams, R. S. Notes on some Birds of the Belt Mountains, Montana 
Territory. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii. pp. 61-G3. 
Zeledon, J. C. Catalogo de las Aves de Costa Rica. San Jos6, Costa 
Rica: 1882, 8vo, pp. 1-39. 
711 species included. 
ACOIPITRES. 
Gurney, J. H. Notes on a ‘Catalogue of the Accipitres in the British 
Museum/ by R. Bowdler Sharpe (1874). Ibis, 1882, pp. 146-162, 
290-321, 436-452, 579-598, pi. x. 
The review of the first volume of the ‘ Catalogue of Birds in the British 
Museum ’ is here concluded, and ornithologists are to be congratulated 
upon the fact that Mr. Gurney’s unrivalled knowledge of the birds of 
prey has been published to the world. 
. Notes on the Raptorial Birds collected in New Britain by Lieut. 
G. E. Richards, R.N. Ibis, 1882, pp. 126-132. 
Urospizias etorques , Accipiter rubricollis , Ilenicopernis infuscata , sp. n., 
described ; Strix aurantiaca [Zool. Rec. xviii. Aves , p. 45], figured, pi. ii. 
. List of a collection of Raptorial Birds from the neighbourhood of 
Saigon, in Cochin China. Ibis, 1882, pp. 235 & 236. 
16 species enumerated. 
Menzbjer, M. {supra, p. 11). 
Deals with the geographical distribution o£ Accipitres of European 
Russia. Falco peregrinus brevirostris , subsp. n. (p. 276), Hierofalco 
uralensis, sp. n. (p. 288, pi. iii.), Aquila fulva var. alpina, Sev. (p. 378), 
and Aquila glitschii (p. 387), described. Falco abietinus , Beckst., var. 
griseiventris , Brehm, figured (id. op. cit. pi. ii.), F. peregrinus leucogenys % 
male juv., figured (id. op. cit. pi. iv.), Aquila orientalis , figured (id. op. cit. 
pis. v.-vii.), Buteo vulpinus , figured (id. op. cit. pi. viii.). 
FALCONE8. 
Cathartics. 
Shufeldt, R. W. Osteology of the Catharlidai. Rep. U. S. Geol- 
Surv. xii. pp. 727-786, pis. xv.-xxiv. 
This elaborate and well illustrated paper confirms Professor Huxley’s 
view of the New World Yultures being very distinct from their Old World 
allies. 
Cathartes. On the presence of an “index” finger; W. A. Forbes, 
Am. Nat. xvi. pp. 141 & 142. 
