200 Prof. H. H. Giglioli on the 



BUDYTES RAYI; Bp. 



Our collection possesses a single specimen of this species, 

 which is exceedingly rare in Italy ; it was received in ex- 

 change frojn the University Museum of Genoa, and was un- 

 doubtedly caught in that neighbourhood ; it has no date, but 

 is most probably one of those collected by Marquis Durazzo. 



BuDYTEs FLAVus (Linn.). 



BuDYTES VIRIDIS (Gm.) . 



BuDYTES MELANOCEPHALUS (Licllt.). 



Our collection possesses a good series of these three forms, 

 which appear to keep sufficiently distinct ; and yet I am 

 doubtful whether they are destined to remain separate. 



Anthus cervinus (Pall.). 



This species is less rare with us than is generally believed. 

 Our collection has four specimens, three of which were shot 

 near Florence, and the fourth at Bari. 



Agrodroma richardi (Vieill.). 



This is our rarest Pipit. The Italian collection possesses 

 two specimens, both shot in Tuscany, one in 1830, the other 

 in 1843, the latter, a male, near Florence. 



Alauda arvensis, Linn. 



This is a most variable species, as can be seen by looking 

 at the fine series in the Florence Museum ; and I can easily 

 understand how it has received divers specific appellations. 

 The residents are always to be distinguished from the 

 migrants. In the " Campagna " about Home a curious mela- 

 nistic variety is very common. 



Melanocorypha sibirica (Gm.). 



On the 14th of May last, while visiting the small Natural- 

 History Museum of Trento, in the Tyrol, which contains a 

 good local collection, I was struck by a specimen of this 

 interesting species: it was labelled " Alauda arvensis -y^' and 

 no one had any idea of its value ! I easily obtained it for 

 our museum, and ascertained that it had been shot in the 

 neighbourhood about the middle of November 1869 ; it is a 

 male. This is very interesting, because a female of this 



