466 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
In the work last mentioned the Haliastur inhabiting China 
is mentioned as having la tete, le con, et la poitrine d’nn 
blanc pur et plus ou moins marques d^tooites raies hrunes/^ 
Whether the Chinese bird is referable to H. indus or to H. 
intermedins, I am unable to say; but in any case the localities 
where it occurs are more northern than any of those quoted 
for either race by Mr. Sharpe, and are thus defined by the 
Abbe David in the volume to which I have just referred:— 
Je Fai rencontre et pris au Tchekiang et an Kiangsi, ou il 
niche sur les grands arbres . , . . il disparait de ces provinces 
pendant Fhiver et se retire dans la Cochinchine.^^ 
I may add, with reference to the subject of geographical 
distribution, that the Norwich Museum possesses an imma¬ 
ture Haliastur from Camboja ; but the bird is too young to 
enable me to say to which subspecies it should be referred. 
Some details as to several islands inhabited by H. inter¬ 
medins and H. girrenera, additional to those furnished by 
Mr. Sharpe, will be found in Count SalvadorFs ^ Prodromus 
Ornithologiae Papuasise et Moluccarum,^ Accipitres, pp. 3, 4, 
where three localities not mentioned by Mr. Sharpe are also 
given for the sole remaining species of the genus Haliastur, 
H sphenurus ; these are Yule Island, and also the rivers Fly 
and Katau, in the southern part of New Guinea. 
I have only to add, with regard to this latter species, that 
Mr. Sharpe^^s description of the young bird as being much 
paler than the adult, must, I think, have been taken from 
a faded specimen, as an immature bird in the Norwich 
Museum is decidedly darker than the adults in the same 
collection, with the exception of the pale tips to the feathers 
of the mantle. 
[To be continued.] 
XXXVIII.— Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 
46. Bulletin ^ of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. 
The April and July numbers of this journal contain a full 
budget of papers on North-American birds, besides notices of 
