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species was caught near Brighton on the 22nd of November 

 of the same year. This is the first recorded instance of the 

 occurrence of this Lark in Italy. 



Calandrella pispoletta (Pall.). 



The s))ecimen which I determined several years ago, and 

 which is mentioned by Salvadori in his Appendix, is now in 

 the Florence collection. It is a male, and was caught near 

 Grosseto in March 1870. I believe this to be the only 

 Italian specimen of this species. 



Otocorys alpestris (Linn.). 



A very rare species with us. Our collection possesses two 

 specimens — one shot near Verona in January 1867, the other, 

 a male, caught near Genoa during the winter of 1860. There 

 is a specimen in the Naples University Museum, shot on the 

 " Campo di Marte," Naples, in the winter of 1871. 



Passerina melanocephala (Scop.). 



This is a common summer species in Dalmatia and 

 Istria, and breeds also in Puglia and Terra d^Otranto, on the 

 opposite side of the Adriatic ; it is not uncommon in the 

 Riviera di ponente, but very rare in other parts of Italy. I 

 have specimens from Nice, Trieste, and Bari, and have seen 

 it caged at Zara. 



Passerina aureola (Pall.). 



Our collection has received in exchange from the Civic 

 Museum at Nice one of the two type specimens of the Em- 

 beriza selysii, Verany, which is merely the immature form of 

 this species. Both were caught alive a short time before the 

 Science Congress of Genoa in 1846, and lived some time in 

 confinement. Our specimen is a young male. 



Emberiza c^sia, Cretzschm. 



Our collection possesses five specimens of this rare Bunting — 

 four from the neighbourhood of Nice, male 19th December 

 1877, female 4th January 1878, male and female March 

 1880 : the fifth was netted at Sinigaglia on the 31st of March 

 1879; it is an adult male. 



