236 Recently published Ornithological Works . 
Wing from 
carpal joint. 
Tarsus. 
in. 
in. 
Typical Aquila albicans : 
$ . Shoa: British Museum .. 
21-3 
3’3 
Largest of ten Abyssinian specimens 
in British and Norwich Museums 
(sex undetermined). .... 
21-6 
3-3 
Smallest of ditto (ditto). 
19-7 
30 
Aquila vindliiana : 
. India (W. Ewer): Norwich Mu¬ 
seum . 
19-8 
3-0 
5 . Ditto (ditto): ditto 
21-1 
3-0 
Presumed §. N.W. India (W. E. 
Brooks): Norwich Museum .... 
21-8 
3-1 
For the sake of comparison I 
may quote the following 
measurements of A. vindhiana from Mr. Hume's f Scrap¬ 
book/ p. 178:— 
Length of 
wing. 
in. 
Largest of five males . 20-4 
Smallest of ditto . 19*5 
Largest of seven females . 21’75 
Smallest of ditto . 2075 
XX .—Notices of Recent Publications. 
[Continued from p. 127.] 
13. Mosenthal and Harting’s ‘ Ostrich-farming 
[Ostriches and Ostrich Farming. By Julius de Mosenthal and James 
Edmund Harting. 8vo, pp. 246. London : 1876.] 
The new industry of Ostrich-farming, and the exhibition of 
the various sorts of feathers in the.late Vienna Exhibition, 
appear to have suggested the writing of this book, although 
other motives may have contributed to it. Had the authors 
confined themselves to their original limits, or extended them 
only to include an account of the Rheas, the feathers of 
which alone of the other Struthious birds have any commercial 
value, the purpose for which the work was undertaken would 
