206 Prof. H. H. Giglioli on the 



as there are two specimens in the museum at Messina^ and 

 a male in that of Syracuse. The latter is, I believe, the bird 

 called by Mr. H. Saunders Syrrhaptes paradoxus (Ibis, 

 1869, p. 397), of which species I saw no trace in that museum 

 in 1878. 



Syrrhaptes paradoxus (Pall.). 



Our collection is in possession of the first specimen which 

 was captured in Italy, during the memorable invasion of 

 1863. It is a female, and was caught at Predazzo (Valle di 

 Fieme), in the Tyrol, in May 1863, and was kept alive up to 

 the 21st of March 1867. In the Natural-History Museum 

 at Modena is a fine male, shot in the hills of PavuUo on the 

 4th of May 1876, evidently a solitary straggler, as no others 

 were seen. 



Tetrao urogallus, Linn. 



This noble bird is becoming extinct in the Italian Alps, 

 and at the present time limited to the eastern portion ; our 

 collection has a fine series of specimens, both male and 

 female, from the Alps of Cadore and Friuli. In the museum 

 at Trento I saw a fine specimen of the hybrid, T. intermedius , 

 a male, caught at Monte Tattoga, in Canal S. Bovo (Trentino), 

 about twenty years ago. It is said that similar birds are 

 still to be met with in that locality. 



BoNASIA BETULINA (Scop.). 



This fine species is also getting rarer and rarer with us, 

 and is now only to be met with in the eastern Alps. Our 

 collection possesses a fine male from Mezzolombardo, 8th of 

 November 1877, and another from Fondo, near Meudola, 

 also in the Trentino, 12th of October 1879, and a pair from 

 Eakek (Carniola), 17th of September 1877. They vary 

 much in the general tint; some are more reddish, others 

 grey; audi doubt whether the distinction between B. betulina 

 and B. sylvestris can be kept up. 



Francolinus vulgaris, Steph. 



No doubt as to the complete extinction of this species in 

 Sicily, its last refuge in Italy, can be entertained. Our col- 



