186 Prof. H. H. Giglioli on the 



doubtedly occurred in Italy, the sum of the species of the 

 Italian avifauna would be 418. In the catalogue which I 

 recently" gave in the first part of my ' Avifauna Italica/ 424 

 species are enumerated, and I have since added five more; 

 but recent investigations have convinced me that the following 

 species, included in that list, are, so far as our present know- 

 ledge goes, to be excluded : — 



Milvus cegyptius (Gm.) ; Falco minor, Bp. ; Carine glaux 

 (Savigny); Turdus naumanni, Temra. ; Saxicola melanoleuca 

 (Giildst.) ; Lusciniopsis fluviatilis (Wolf) ; Aedon galadodes 

 (Temm.) ; Gallinago brehmi (Kaupj ; Balearica pavonina 

 (Linn.) ; Adelarus leucophthalmus (Licht.) ; Megalestris ca- 

 tarrhactes (Linn.). 



Some of these will call for further remarks in the following 

 notes ; others of them may have occurred, but no authentic 

 Italian specimens are known ; others, again, as Cai'ine glaux, 

 Saxicola melanoleuca, and Gallinago brehmi, cannot, I believe, 

 be considered good species. I have not mentioned the noto- 

 rious Synoecus lodoisia, of which the unique and type speci- 

 men is in the Turati collection of Milan ; for, having care- 

 fully examined it, I quite agree with several distinguished 

 ornithologists who have seen it, that it is merely a variety of 

 the Common Quail. Our collection possesses an equally 

 singular variety of the Grey Partridge. 



While concluding these general remarks on the Italian 

 ornis, I may add that, besides some of the species mentioned 

 in the preceding list, some of the following are likely to 

 occur in our subregion, and may even have already been 

 caught, but escaped the ornithologist's eye : — 



Accijiiter brevipes (Severtz.) ; Melierax gabar (Daud.) ; 

 Buteo deserlorum (Daud.) ; Aquila mogilnik, S. G. Gm. ; 

 A. adalberti, L. Brehm. ; A. nipalensis, Hodgs. ; A. rapax 

 (Temm.) ; Elanus cceruleus (Desf.) ; Asio capensis (Smith) ; 

 Ceryle rudis (Linn.) ; Acredula tephronota (Giiuth.) ; Turdus 

 ruficollis. Pall. ; Calliope camtschatkensis (Gm.) ; Saxicola 

 is«6e//ma, Biipp. j Accentor montanellus (PaW.) ; Daulias phi- 

 /ome/a (Bechst.) ; Sylvia rueppelli,Temva. ; Reguloides super - 

 ciliosus (Gm.) ; Hypolais caligata (Licht.) ; H. opaca (Licht.) ; 



