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fonner in the gardens, and the latter everywhere. Chaffinches hopped 

 about the roads in the town, like our sparrows, which were 

 not abundant at Bozen. Song thrush and missel appeared 

 to be absent ; I neither saw nor heard either of them. We 

 once saw some dead fieldfares hung on a string for sale in the 

 market. A party of goldcrests were seen enjoying themselves in 

 some pine trees on the Virgl and twice we saw^ families of long- 

 tailed tits. ]\lagpies were common on the hills above the plain 

 and we saw and heard one raven. The common redstart was quite 

 frequent in the gardens. The bird that most interested me, how- 

 ever, was the blackstart. There was a pair in the Miihlbach Weg, 

 and another near Sigmund'skron. These quiet and handsome 

 birds seem to prefer the back garden of some little cottage, 

 especially if there should be an old wooden shed where they can 

 build their nest. They are very tame. One morning I noticed the 

 cockbird sitting on the cottage roof singing, but that was the only 

 time I heard the song. Mollusca were not particularly abundant, 

 except A(iri<)lliita.v aip-estis : but one afternoon ■we found a very tine 

 specimen of Limax cinereo-nii/er. One afternoon when busy among 

 the ruins of the castle of Sigmund'skron, turning up stones in 

 search for snails, I all but put my hand on a scorpion. Needless 

 to say, after that I was more careful. Liinuaa pcrciira and L. 

 star/nalia occurred in a reedy pond in the valley. 



In conclusion, I may remark that this paper does not include all 

 our doughty deeds oi perilous misfortunes in this lovely country. 

 How for instance, Ebray found a fine larva of Apatttra ilia 

 (subsequently bred) on a Lombardy poplar and, ascending the tree 

 in hopes of getting more, came down covered with debris and with 

 a large catocalid larva on his shoulder. How again, late one 

 February afternoon, we were purposely led astray in a dense wood 

 by a sinister individual whose establishment we had refused to 

 patronize. 



On May 23rd, our stay in Gries came to an end. The freshness 

 of spring was then rapidly passing into the ardent fulness of early 

 summer. 



Appendix. 



Some tineid and other moths observed near Bozen in 1911. 



Aptcrona crenulella. I found several of the snail-like cases of 

 this species at the top of the Archduke's walk. The case is sinistral, 

 whereas in the majority of snails the coiling of the shell is dextraL 



SiintrtJtis fabriciana, Oberbozen, May 6th. 



(ihjpkiptenjx luiirortltaua, Gries, April riOth. 



Cerontuiiia radiotella, Rafenstein. 



Xletzncria rarlinella .' Larvrti, probably of this species, were 

 found in the head of a carline thistle. 



Lita atliiujis. On the heath beloAv Oberbozen, April 21st. Two 

 or three on the wing. J^niatiirtja atannnia flying at the same time, 



