492 Count E. Arrigoni Dcgli Oddi on 



Mai di Ventre and Catalano *, off Oristano (Western Sar- 

 dinia), also in the Toro and Vacca Is^lands, Leghorn, and some 

 other places. Professor Giglioli f says that no other Gull is 

 found at Camicia Harbour, and Mr. Bonomi that it is very 

 abundant at Porto Torres, where, however, I saw only Yellow- 

 leijired Herring-Gulls and Black-headed Gulls. 



In Corsica, Audouin's Gull is apparently met with but 

 rarely on the western coasts, but Whitehead]; states that 

 he found a wounded individual during a violent storm. In 

 a series of excellent notes, Prof. Damiani § reports that 

 six specimens were killed on Elba in the months of January, 

 March, May, August, and December, two of them being 

 now in the collection of Mr. Touietti at Porteferraio, in 

 that island, two in mine, one in the Royal Museum at 

 Florence, and one in the Civic Museum at Milan. I 

 believe that the bird also occurs in the islands of Capreja, 

 Pianosa, and Monte Cristo. 



In Sicily this Gull has a[)pcarcd near Catania and Palermo, 

 and some fine specimens are preserved in the Museum of the 

 latter town, whence also one was sent to the British Museum || 

 (February 1886). Mr. Wright reports having seen an 

 example in Malta ; while the Ligurian specimen above men- 

 tioned was killed by Marquis Pinelli-Gentile on May 10th, 

 1883, at the mouth of the Cente, near Albenga, and is now 

 in his collection. Messrs. Giglioli and Salvadori do not 

 recognise any other Ligurian examples, but Baron Schalow^ 

 attributes two which are in the ^Museums of Genoa to that 

 country *^. 



The bird has never been obtained in the Adriatic, although 

 Count Contarini has recorded it from Yenetia in error, while 



* I procured two fine specimeus there myself, 

 t Avif. Ital. p. 430 (1886). 

 + Ibis, 1885, p. 47. 



§ Aviciila, 1898, p. 131, 1001, p. 1 ; Boll. Soc. Zool. Ital. x. p. 49 

 (1901). 



II Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxv. p. •2^J^.^ (1890). 



*\ J. f.O. 1877, p. 191. 



** (/., however, Giglioli, Ibi.^*, 1881, p. 219. 



