92 
Mr. Breeds f Birds of Europe 
are not sure that this bird ( Circaetus gallicus, Gmel.) has not 
been killed in England. It certainly has occurred as far north 
on the Continent, according to Dr. Kjoerboelling (Danmark's 
Fugle). We do not think that M. Temminck's meaning (Man. 
d'Orn. pt. iii. p. 25) is, as Mr. Bree interprets it, that it is be¬ 
coming rare in Belgium and in Italy. It was probably never 
anything but a straggler in the former country, M. de Selys- 
Longchamps (Faune Beige, p. 53) mentioning but two instances 
of its occurrence there, and most likely it was never more fre¬ 
quently met with in the latter country than at the present day. 
We have Mr. Robert Birkbeck's authority (Zool. 1854, p. 4249), 
it is “ common in Liguria in the spring ; ” and that gentleman 
met with examples in the markets at Borne and Genoa, besides 
seeing “ several soaring over the Campagna." 
It is unfortunate that our author has overlooked the very in¬ 
teresting communications in f Naumannia' for 1853 (pp. 256 
and 296), by Dr. J. Fr. Naumann and Herr H. F. Moeschler, 
respecting the Long-legged Buzzard ( Buteo rufinus, Kaup), 
under the synonym of Buteo leucurus of the former writer; for 
they would have enabled him to have added much to the meagre 
account he has given of this bird's habits in Europe, of which 
he states “ nothing is known." In the neighbourhood of the 
lower part of the Volga, it seems to be far from uncommon, and to 
breed. The late Mr. Strickland (Orn. Syn. p. 35) identifies this 
species with the Buteo pectoralis of Vieillot. If he be right, that 
name has the priority of rufinus; but one of the German writers 
above cited thinks it probable that it is the bird described by 
Pallas (Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 354, sp. 27) as Accipiter hypo - 
leucus, in which case this specific name, as being the oldest, 
ought to be used*. 
two described species in the genus Circaetus , namely C. gallicus and C. 
pectoralis. Mr. G. R. Gray has as yet only published the name of his 
Circaetus fasciolatus .— Ed . 
* Mr. G. R. Gray (List B. Brit. Mus. 2nd ed. i. p. 17) refers the hypoleucus 
of Pallas, with an expression of doubt, to Circaetus gallicus. We have 
not now the means of determining whether the Anglo-Saxon or the Teu¬ 
tonic suggestion be right, but we hope our calling the attention of natural¬ 
ists to the question may be the means of settling the point. [It is stated 
by Prince Bonaparte (Rev. Zool. Feb. 1855), that Pallas’s hypoleucus 
