184 Prof. H. H. Giglioli on the 



Pterocles arenarius (Pall.), 



In the small University Museum at Messina, mostly formed 

 by Benoit's collection^ is a female of this species. Benoit 

 himself assured me that it had been captured in Sicily, but 

 he could not remember when. In his well-known ' Orni- 

 tologia Siciliana/ at p. 117, however, he mentions this species 

 as unknown to him ; thus the specimen I mention must have 

 been caught after ISIO. 



HOUBARA UNDULATA (Jacq.). 



There is a Houhara in the University Museum in Malta, 

 which, if I remember rightly, is of this species. I was told 

 that it had been shot on the island many years ago, and it 

 might be the male described b}^ Schembri as shot by G . Borg 

 Madiona in 1841 (Cat. Orn. di Malta, p. 85) . On this unique 

 specimen rests, as far as I am aware, the evidence of the 

 occurrence of this species in our subregion. 



Hoplopterus spinosus (Linn.). 



A female, shot in Malta on the 11th October 18G5, is in 

 Mr. Wright^s collection. A second specimen, captured at 

 Cattaro in May 1859, is in Finger^s Collection in the Vienna 

 Museum. A male from Sicily (??) is in the Civic Museum 

 at Pavia. 



Charadrius fulvus, Gm. 



A specimen is in the collection of Signor A. Zammit in 

 Malta {fide Wright), where it was shot in May 1861. Other 

 instances of the occuri-ence of the Eastern Golden Plover in 

 the island are recorded. 



ACTITURUS LONGICxVUDUS (Bcclist.). 



A splendid specimen is in the Genoa Civic Museum ; it was 

 shot in the neighbourhood in October 1859. A second speci- 

 men was secured by C. A. Wright, Esq., in Malta, on the 17th 

 of November 1865, and is, I believe, still in his possession. 



Anthropoides VIRGO (Linn.) 



Has been recorded from Tuscany (Savi, 1828), Sicily (Do- 

 derlein, 1833), and Maha (Wright, March 186]); but none 

 have been preserved, so far as I am aware. A specimen of 



