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Tioslcinsi, n. subsp., Lower California; W. Brewster, t. c. p. 136. 
G. passerinum figured ; E. H. GiGlioli & A. Manzella, Icon. Avif. 
■Ital. pt. xl. 
Megascops aspersas [ <j! ad. and juv.], M. vinaceus [ $ ], n. spp., Province 
of Chihuahua, Mexico ; W. Brewster, Auk, 1888, pp. 87 & 88. 
Ninox albaria. n. sp., Lord Howe I. ; E. P. Ramsay, Tab. List Austral. 
Birds, p. 37. N. granti [ $ $ ], n. sp., Guadalcanar, Solomon Archipelago ; 
R. B. Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1888, pp. 183 & 184. N. macroptera , n. sp. 
[ $ ? ], = Noctua hirsuta, of Schlegel, = N. scutulata ?, of A. B. Meyer, 
[cf. Zool. Rec. xxi, Aves, p. 56], Great Sanghir I. [Celebes Sea] ; W. 
Blasius, Braunschw. Anz. 1888, No. 9 (Jan. 11th), p. 86, and Ornis, 1888, 
pp. 545 & 555. N. natalis [ $ ], n. sp., near N. forbesi, Christmas I., Indian 
Ocean ; J. J. Lister, P. Z. S. 1888, pp. 525-527. 
Sceloglaux albifaties figured; W. L. Buller, Birds New Zealand, pi. xx. 
Scops fuliginosa , n. sp., near S. umbratilis, Palawan I. [= S. everetti ] ; 
R. B. Sharpe, Ibis, 1888, p. 197. S. lucice[$ ? ], n. sp., near S. rufesccns f 
Kina Balu Mt., N. Borneo ; id. i. c. p. 478. S. scapulatus , n. sp. [£], 
I. of St. Thomas, W. Africa ; J. Y. Barboza du Bocage, J. Sci. Lisb. 
1888 [xlviii], p. 229. S. obsohtus, Cab., is posterior to S. brucii (Hume) ; 
J. II. Gurney, Ibis, 1888, p. 145. 
- Spiloglaux novce-zealandice figured ; W. L. Buller, Birds New Zealand, 
pi. xx. 
Syrnium whitelieadi , n. sp. [£], near S. sinense, Palawan I.; R. B. 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1888, pp. 196 & 197, pi. iii. S. wieplceni, n. sp. [<^ ?], 
Palawan I.; W. Blasius, Braunschw. Anz. 1888, No. 52 (Mar. 1st), p. 467, 
and Ornis, 1888, pp. 304 & 305. The two species stated to be identical, 
and priority claimed for the latter ; id. Ibis, 1888, p. 372. S. nebulosum, 
feeding habits of young ; H. J. Roddy, Auk, 1888, p. 248. 
ACCIPITRES. 
FaLCONIDjE. 
Fossil remains (new species), see Portis, A. 
VVie fiingt man Raubvogel ? Edd. MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 1888, 
pp. 12-14, 11 figs. 
Different kinds of traps. 
Two Eagles fighting, with photograph from a Japanese original ; Frei- 
frau v. Ulm-Erbacii, t. c. p. 18. 
The family, see Fisher, A. K. [food], Mann, T. J. 
Feeding-habits of the young ; H. J. Roddy, Auk, 1888, pp. 246-248. 
Sur les proccdds de chasse employes par les rapaces ; L. Magaud 
d’Aubusson, Lo Nat. 1888, p. 175, fig. 
Vulturidce , sub voce “Vulture”; A. Newton, Encycl. Brit. ed. 9, 
vol. xxiv. 
Accipiter buttihoferi, n. sp. [= A. hartlaubi of Buttikofer’s first paper, 
gtrprd], Liberia ; R. B. SHARrE, Notes Leyd. Mu?, x [1888], pp. 199 & 
