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'■'■February \oth. Bought a fine blue rock-thrush* and 

 two hill mynahs t in Naples. In the king's aviary at 

 Capo di Monte I saw several hybrids between common 

 and golden pheasants. 



'■'■February l6th. Noticed many bats flying in bright 

 sunshine about Pozzuoli. One that I knocked down 

 with the carriage whip near the Lago d'Aguana proved 

 to be Schreiber's bat {Vespertilio schreiberi), but we saw 

 other species. Many lizards in sunny places, I think 

 chiefly Lacerta muralis. 



" In one of the dark chambers of Pompeii I knocked 

 down four specimens of V. schreiberi and a dead horse- 

 shoe bat, I think Rhinolophus euryale, but the other bats 

 devoured him. 



" There is a collection of birds and other animals at 

 the University, but nothing very remarkable, and the 

 specimens are crowded and badly arranged. There is a 

 male Sicilian francolin. I made acquaintance with one of 

 the professors, G. Palma, who has a small private collection. 

 He showed me some gulls which present many charac- 

 teristics of the Adriatic black-headed gull (Z. melano- 

 cephalui) and the brown-headed gull (L. ridibundus), and 

 are very puzzling. I cannot help thinking that they must 

 be hybrids. He has a young pelican (Peiecanus crispus), % 

 shot near Naples, which he considers P. omcrotalus. § 



* See Presidential Address, p. 39. 



t See Aviary Notes. 



J The Dalmatian Pelican. 



§ The Common or Egyptian Pelican. 



