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Mr. J. H. Gurney^s Notes on 
allude; but I need merely do so_, as I have nothing to add to 
Mr. Sharper’s account of the only species comprised in it_, H. 
cachinnans, which^ as it seems to me^ is the sole representative 
of the Circaetine group on the continent of America. I 
therefore pass on to the genus Circaetus, all the species of 
which are African^ and all^ as far as is known^ except C. 
gallicus, exclusively so. 
The geographical range of C. gallicus'^ is considerably 
wider than that of any other species of the genus. A sum¬ 
mary of the countries which it inhabits is given in Mr. 
Sharpe’s volume; and fuller details on this head will be found 
in Mr. Dresser’s article on this species in his work on the 
Birds of Europe, including some particulars of its range 
through Central Asia into Northern China/’ which is not 
alluded to by Mr. Sharpe, and which has been subsequently 
also recorded in Prejevalsky’s Birds of Mongolia’ [vide 
^ Ornithological Miscellany,’ vol. ii. p. 145), and in David and 
Oustalet’s ^ Oiseaux de la Chine,’ p. 21. 
Proceeding to the consideration of the remaining species 
of the genus, 1 may observe that Mr. Sharpe gives the habitat 
of C. heaudoumi as ^^Senegambia and North-Eastern Africa 
but the latter phrase must not be taken in its fullest sense : 
one of the specimens in the Norwich Museum, obtained from 
the late MM. Verreaux, was said by those gentlemen to 
have been obtained in Nubia (as recorded in The Ibis ’ for 
1862, p. 213, footnote) ; but, with this exception, the only 
North-east African localities for this species with which I 
am acquainted are those recorded by Von Heuglin, viz. 
Southern and Eastern Kordofan and Eastern Sennaarf. 
In the case of C. cinerascens, Mr. Sharpe has omitted to 
give his usual summary of the localities where this species 
occurs; and I may therefore mention that it has been met 
with both in Western and in Eastern Africa. As regards the 
West, the British and Norwich Museums possess several 
* I consider C. orientalis of Brehm synonymous with C. gallicus, on 
which point see Mr. Dresser’s note in ^ The Ibis ’ for 1875, p. 102. 
t Vide Ibis, 1860, p. 413, and ^ Ornithologie Nordost-Afrika’s,’ vol. i. 
p. 86. 
