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intermediate between pumilum and " griseiceps." The latter 

 I consider to be unquestionably the grey extreme of the same 

 species, the rufescent phase of which is G. pumilum — the 

 differences being exactly parallel with those noticeable in G. 

 gnoma. 



6. Glaucidium siju. 



Glaucidium siju, Ridgw. /. c. p. 105 ; Sharpe, /. c. p. 59. 



Hab. Cuba. 



IV. — Notes on the Ornithology of Corsica. 

 By C. Bygrave Wharton, F.Z.S. 



It must not for one moment be thought that these notes pro- 

 fess to give a complete list of the birds of Corsica. They 

 simply embody the results of my personal experience during 

 a residence of nearly eight months in the island. Unfor- 

 tunately by far the greater part of that time was spent on the 

 west coast (undoubtedly the worst for birds), or I feel sure 

 many more species would have been noticed than are included 

 in the following list. Of the 113 species enumerated, 90 

 were killed by myself, and the remaining 23 were otherwise 

 carefully identified. 



Landing at Ajaccio on Sept 26th, 1874, my researches were 

 confined to the west coast until the beginning of March 1875 ; 

 I then crossed the island and spent a short time at Bastia 

 and Aleria on the east, returned to Ajaccio on March 19th, and 

 remained till April 7th, then recrossedthe island, and, spend- 

 ing only two days in Corte, passed till May 20th in or near 

 Bastia. 



Though the laws concerning guns hampered me consider- 

 ably during the latter part of my stay, I had not much to 

 complain of till the 2nd of May : on that day three weeks' 

 work in the swamps of Biguglia told on me in the shape of 

 fever ; and though not as bad as it might have been, 1 was 

 advised by my doctor to leave the island as soon as my health 

 permitted. Thus was my chance of noticing several more 



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