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list this species has been reported as forming one of Italy's 

 rare visitors, but in the ' Elenco degli Uccelli Italiaui ' of 

 Count Dr. E. Arrigoni degli Oddi, published in 1913, it is 

 reported among the species erroneously included in the 

 Italian list. 



23.(113) Pyrrhula pyrrhula europaea Vieill. The Bull- 

 finch. 



Local name : Bugheddum. 



The occurrence of this species is quite accidental. 

 Schembri records one captured within the limits of Zurrico 

 in February 1840 and two shot by JNlr. Ellul in March 

 1835. Wright reports also the same occurrences, adding, 

 however, another one, which he says was taken some years 

 afterwards. I have a pair in my collection which were taken 

 within the limits of Zurrico on the 27th of November, 1909. 

 In some other lists the local name for this species appears 

 as Durrajsa hamra (Red Bunting) ; the one above given and 

 which I have taken from Mr. Micallef is, however, more 

 to the point ; moreover Durrajsa hamra is better suited, as 

 suggested by the Hon. Dr. Magro, to Emberiza aureola. 



24.(114) Pyrrhula pyrrhula pyrrhula (L.). The Northern 

 Bullfinch. 



Local name : Bugheddum prvim. 



Two specimens were taken by Rocco Schembri (Tal 

 Pivri) whilst netting for Sparrows in the neighbourhood 

 of Zurrico on the 20th of August, 1909, and another by 

 Rosario Psaila (Tal Ghaccari) from Binghisa in November 

 of the same year. The specimens taken by Schembri lived 

 for more than a year in confinement, the one taken by 

 Psaila died after a few days. Of these two occurrences 

 only tlie last is mentioned in ray list of 1915, the other, by 

 an oversight, has been left out ; it figures, however, in my 

 list of new additions to our avifauna, published in the 

 'Archivum Melitense' of 1913. The local name has been 

 suggested by the Hon. Dr. Magro. 



