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It lived for several days. I was fortunate enough in secu- 

 ring the specimen. 



Emberiza schceniclus, $ (Ibis, 1864, p. 55). One was 

 taken in a net on the 9th Dec, 1871. 



Emberiza nivalis (Ibis, 1864, p. 55 ; 1870, p. 490). Two 

 other specimens of this northern bird have been taken within 

 a few days of each other, since the one shot by me in No- 

 vember 1869. They were killed about the end of December 

 of the same year, or beginning of January 1870. Both spe- 

 cimens were shown to me ; and I secured one of them for my 

 collection. 



HiRUNDO DAURicA, Liuu., (Ibis, 1864, p. 57). Another 

 example of this rare visitor was taken in April 1870. 



HiRUNDO RUPESTRis (Ibis, 1864, pp. 57, 291 ; 1865, p. 464). 

 I noticed several of these birds again at Rabuto, Gozo, on two 

 successive days at Christmas, 1873. They seemed to be quite 

 at home, hawking for insects on the sheltered sides of the 

 houses in the most frequented part of the town, and from time 

 to time resting on the cornices of the Calypso Hotel, where 

 we were lodging, and other buildings. No other species of 

 Swallow, as far as I know, passes the winter in these islands. 

 On revisiting Gozo in the following April, I could find no 

 traces of it, although the usual Swallows, Martins, and Swifts 

 were to be seen everywhere on migration. 



Caprimulgus euroPjEUs (Ibis, 1864, p. 58). I have a cu- 

 rious variety of this species, labelled " Female, Gargur, Malta, 

 April 3, 1868." It is of a general silvery grey, wing-coverts 

 almost pure white, the markings shown in the ordinary- 

 coloured bird being faintly traceable on the light ground. It 

 was given to me in the flesh by the person in charge of the 

 government aqueducts. The latest date of the occurrence of 

 C. europaus in Malta, during the spring migration, that has 

 come to my notice, was on the 9th June, 1870, when I was 

 surprised to find one of these birds and a Stilt Plover (Ibis, 

 1864, p. 49) on a stall in the market. 



