202 Prof. H. H. Giglioli on the 



EmBERIZA LiiUCOCEPHALAj S. G. Gm. 



This is also a rare species ; our collection contains four 

 specimens, all males. The first was shot at Mentone on the 

 8th of January 1877, the second at Marraddi, in the Tuscan 

 Apennines, in February 1874 : the last two are both from the 

 neighbourhood of Prato, near Florence ; one bears the date 

 of November 1868, the other that of the 5th of November 

 1878 ; the latter was netted, and kept alive for some time. 



Emberiza rustica. Pall. 



Our collection possesses two specimens of this scarce 

 Bunting, both caught at Genoa, where it not unfrequently 

 occurs. The first is apparently one of the type specimens of 

 E. lesbia, Calvi, and was received in exchange from the 

 University Museum, it bears the date of December 1845 ; the 

 second, a female, was caught during the winter of 1869, and 

 was kept alive up to the 27th of May of that year by Marquis 

 Doria, who presented it to me. 



Emberiza pusilla. Pall. 



We possess also two specimens of this species, both males 

 and from Genoa. The first, a type specimen of E. durazzi, 

 appears to have been presented to the Florence Museum 

 either by Durazzo or Bonaparte during the Science Congress 

 of 1841 : I received the second in exchange from the Genoa 

 University Museum ; it has no date but looks fresh. 



Emberiza pyrrhuloides. Pall. 



I cannot agree with Mr. Dresser's mode of distinction 

 between this species and E. schoeniclus, and his uniting 

 Italian thick-billed specimens with the latter. It would have 

 been far more logical to have abolished altogether any specific 

 distinction between the two forms of Reed-Bunting. I have 

 a large series of Italian specimens of both, and feel perfectly 

 warranted in keeping them distinct. No doubt intermediate 

 specimens do occur now and then ; but hybridism might well 

 account for them, both species breeding with us. 



Plectrophanes lapponicus (Linn.) . 



Our collection has a fine specimen of this northern bird, 

 a female, netted near Pistoia about November 1875. 



