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7. Budytes borealis (Sund.). 



I met with this species for the first time last year at Novi, when I 

 killed one pair, now in the Museum. This year we got an other male spe- 

 cimen from Csalóköz-Somorja. G. Almásy (Ornith. Jahrb. IX. p. 91. 1898) 

 mentions four Hungarian specimens from Temes-Kubin, Velencze and 

 Csalóköz-Somorja. 



Ohs. It must be mentioned, that we have no Budi/tcs cincreocapiUus 

 from Hungary in the Museum. I do not believe, that those specimens, which 

 Almásy (loc. cit. p. 93.) referred to and which were collected in Temes-Kubin 

 and Csalóköz-Somorja, are B. cinereocapillns. Those specimens which are ex- 

 hibited in the Zágráb Museum do not come from Hungary, but from Pola, Trebinye 

 and Veglia. 



8. Budytes feldeggi Michah. 



G. Almásy succeeded in getting two Hungarian specimens from 

 Temes-Kubin. (Loc. cit. p. 98.) I was not lucky in obtaining this species, 

 as I did not find eny on the Littoral last year. The tyj)ical specimens of 

 the Zágráb Museum came from the Dalmatian coast. 



9. Budytes paradoxus Che. L. Br. 



E. B. Sharpé gives the Geographical distribution of this bird as 

 begining from Hungary (Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vol. X. p. 531.). The Hungarian 

 National Museum has as yet no Hungarian specimens, but Almásy and 

 Chernél discovered on one occasion a series of them at Temes-Kubin in 

 1895. (Almásy, loc. cit. p. 99.) 



10. Budytes taivanus Swinh. 



The Hungarian National Museum has a very typical male and fimale 

 of this pretty Asiatic bird, collected by Prof. G. Szikla in May 1893 at the 

 lake of Velencze. Almásy states (loc. cit. p. 106), that they were mounted 

 from a skin, and thus the feathers of the head are so confused that it is not 

 possible to make out the colour of tlie top of head and superciliars. This 

 is not the case and I must contradict Mr. Almásy. These specimens killed 

 by Prof. Szikla were quite fresh and mounted by himsef in our Museum. 



The stuffing of these birds is entirely irreproachable and they look 

 life-like. 



This species is new not only for Hungary but also for the Avifauna 

 of Europe. 



