368 Mr. J. H. Guruey on the 



week of May, at which time a lepidopterist would probably 

 find the warmest valleys teeming with butterflies. My son 

 captured examples of 35 species. 



And now to shortly enumerate what has been written on 

 the ornithology of this part of France. It is to be hoped 

 that the valuable list of local works by Mr. Howard Saunders 

 and M. Clement on the ornithology of France (Zoologist, 

 1878, p. 95) wdll be republished for more general circulation 

 with the necessary additions to bring it up to date. ' A List 

 of the Migratory Birds of Provence,' by M. J. Duval- Jouve, 

 professor of philosophy in the college of Grasse (Zoologist, 

 1845, p. 1113), comes first, and probably refers quite as 

 much to the Var as to the three other Departments which 

 formerly were included under the name of Provence. In 1853 

 a catalogue of birds by the late Dr. J. B. Jaubert appeared 

 in the first part of the ' Prodrome d^Histoire naturelle du 

 Departement du Var,' for the loan of a copy of which I am 

 indebted to Prof. Newton. Six years later the same author, 

 in conjunction with Barthelemy-Lapommeraye, issued the 

 • Richesses Ornithologiques du Midi de la France,' in which 

 Hyeres, Draguignan, Frejus, and other places in the Var 

 are often mentioned, the book being a worthy successor of 

 Polydore Roux's ' Ornithologie Provencale' (1825-9). A, 

 Pellicot's ' Oiseaux Voyageurs sur les Cotes de la Provence ' 

 (1872) is a reprint of previously published articles, with 

 additions, while Risso's ' Histoire Naturelle de Nice et des 

 AlpesMari times' (1826) contains a listof 306 species. Mr.W. 

 E. Clarke's valuable papers on the Camargue (Ibis, 1895 and 

 1898) have some bearing on the Var, and I am indebted to 

 M. I'Abbe Joseran for a list of species, and to M.Cavaleadt 

 and Mr. St. Quintin for other details. L.-A. Levat's ' Les 

 Oiseaux de Provence' (1894) is also a useful alphabetical 

 enumeration, but little has been published about the Basses 

 Alpes and the Var of recent years, though the Baron de Pal- 

 luel and Mr. Hanbury have printed a few notes about Nice, 

 whence some years ago I received a small collection. 



Jaubert gives about 310 species, to which Regulus igni- 

 capillus, R. cristatvs, (Edemia nigra, and Pterucles alchata 



