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cit. p. 395) compared with B. maccimus, to prove that the former 

 has good claim to be included among Italian birds. Concerning 

 the Red Partridges seen in the market of Florence, there is no 

 doubt that they come from Sardinia. Every mail-stearaer from 

 that island brings numbers of them to the markets of Naples, 

 Palermo, Leghorn, Genoa, Turin, and elsewhere ; I know that 

 many are even sent to Marseilles. 



I should like, before concluding, to bring forward the fact that 

 another eastern visitor has made its appearance in Italy for the 

 first time. On a late visit to the Museum at Pisa, Prof. Savi 

 showed me three specimens of Terekia cinerea caught all together 

 near that city on the 9th of May last. One of them is now in 

 the Museum of Turin. 



I conclude with a remark on exotic ornithology. I should 

 wish to call Mr. Tristram^s attention to the possibility of his 

 Megalophonus anderssoni being the same as my M. rufociima- 

 momeus from Abyssinia (Atti Soc. Ital. Sc. Nat. 1866). Mr. 

 Heuglin has supposed that it may be the same as his Geocoraphus 

 elegantissimus (J. f. O. 1868, p. 228) ; but Dr. Finsch, who has 

 lately inspected it, recognizes it as a true Megalophonus and 

 quite distinct from any other species previously described. 



I remain. Sir, &c., 



Zoological Museum, Turin, ToMMASO SjiLVADORI. 



26tli December, 1869. 



London, 28tli December, 1869. 

 SiK, — M. le Pere Armand David, of Pekin, sent me the en- 

 closed description of a Parus which occurs in the neighbourhood 

 of the Chinese capital, together with two examples of the bird 

 itself, and begged me to have his diagnosis inserted in ' The Ibis,' 

 provided that the species turned out a novelty, as he supposed 

 it would. At first glance I pronounced it to be P. ater, but on 

 closer examination I find it to have a few of the black crown- 

 feathers lengthened and protruding over the occipital white. 

 By this it can be at once distinguished from the European P. 

 ater, L. A similar foi'm, hitherto identified with that species, 

 has been brought from Hakodadi (North Japan). I have exa- 

 mined two specimens of this, and notice that the crest-feathers 



