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this species is in the University Museum at Padua, with the 

 indication " Valli Padovane/' Avithout any date. 



Bernicla leucopsis (Bechst.). 



A very fine specimen is in the Naples Zoological University 

 Museum ; it was shot near Foggia, in the winter of 1877, and 

 bears the name of B. brenta, under which Prof. A. Costa 

 published a note on its occurrence. 



Chenalopex ^GYPTiACus (Liun.) . 



A single specimon was said to be in the small Natural- 

 History Museum at Syracuse, shot in the neighbourhood 

 many years ago {fide Doderlein) . I visited that museum in 

 September 1878, but saw no such specimen ; it is therefore 

 with much hesitation that I include this species in the pre- 

 sent list. 



OCEANITES OCEANICUS (Kuhl). 



One specimen was shot near Cagliari {fide Cara), and now 

 in the University Museum there {fide Salvadori). 



Thalasseus medius (Horsf.). 



A specimen of this species in spring plumage, from Sicily, 

 is in the Leyden Museum {fide Schlegel). I believe that a 

 second specimen is in the Palermo Museum. 



Larus glaucus, Briinn. 



I know of two specimens undoubtedly Italian : — one, adult, 

 in the Genoa University Museum, without date of capture ; a 

 second, also adult, in the private collection of Dr. Orsini at 

 Genoa, where it was shot in the harbour on the 10th of April 

 1877. 



Lestris crepidatus (Banks). 



Specimens, captured in Piedmont, have been seen and re- 

 ferred to this species by Salvadori ; one other, caught in the 

 Marche, is in the possession of the same author. I have seen 

 in the Naples University Museum a specimen of this species, 

 said to have been shot in the neighbourhood in 1870. Another 

 is at Venice, in the Ducal-Palace ^Iiiseum. 



With the addition of the above, which have nearly all un- 



