Notes on Mr. R. B. Sharpens Catalogue 0 /Accipitres. 451 
was made in the usual situation^ but^ I regret to say^ came to 
nothings although the parents sat alternately on it for at 
least ten or twelve days. A second nest was subsequently 
formed, and two more eggs laid; but, unfortunately, no results 
were obtained. 
The egg of Ihis cethiopica, which is now figured (PL XII.) 
from the specimen laid this year before the birds left 
the aviary, measures about 2*6 inches by 1*9. It is white, 
slightly speckled and scratched with reddish brown, and 
seems to me to resemble, as it naturally would, the egg of 
the Spoonbill more than that of any other bird with which I 
am acquainted. 
Mr. E. C. Taylor {antea, p. 372) has lately recorded the 
occurrence of the Sacred Ibis in Lower Egypt, concerning 
which Captain Shelley* seems to have been rather too incre¬ 
dulous, as has already been remarked by Heuglin [ 1 . s. c .). 
Heuglin himself saw an example shot near Quata, in the 
Delta, in 1864, by the hunting-party of Prince Halim Pasha; 
and there are other records of the same kind, although the 
bird is, no doubt, only an occasional straggler so far north. 
XXXVII.— Notes on a ^Catalogue of the Accipitres in the 
British Museum^ by R. Bowdler Sharpe (1874). By J. H. 
Gurney. 
[Continued from p. 356.] 
The Sea-Eagles, which I propose next to consider, form a 
group nearly allied to the typical Aquilinae, but chiefly dis¬ 
tinguished from them by having the tarsus bare of feathers, 
except for a short distance below its upper extremity, and 
also by their more aquatic habits, both as regards the loca¬ 
lities which they frequent, and the food on which they, for 
the most part, subsist. 
The group of Sea-Eagles may appropriately bear the title 
of Haliaetinae, which was used by the late Mr. Blyth, though 
in a somewhat wider sense than that in which I adopt it, at 
* ‘ Birds of Egypt/ p. 261. 
