208 Prof. H. H. Giglioli on the 



sesses a male shot in the spring of 1857 near Caltagirone. 

 I have seen specimens in the museums at Catania and 

 Syracuse. 



HouBARA MACQUEENi (J. E. Gray). 



Our collection possesses a very fine female specimen of 

 this species^ shot near Rome on the 16th of December 1859; 

 another specimen, also a female, was captured during the last 

 days of November the same year, also in that neighbourhood, 

 and is still in the University Museum at Rome. These are 

 the two specimens mentioned by Salvadori (who had not 

 examined them) under the name of H. undulata ; and they 

 are the only specimens of this species caught in Italy which 

 have been preserved. As to the Houbara mentioned as in the 

 Syracuse Museum by Mr. H. Saunders (Ibis, 1869, p. 397), 

 and after him by Prof. Doderlein, there must be some mis- 

 take ; for I carefully went over that museum in October 1878, 

 and the only Bustard there was an Otis tarda ! I was 

 assured by the keeper that none of the specimens had been 

 removed. I have found in this species, as well as in the 

 other two Bustards which occur in- Italy, that the basal 

 portion of most of the body-feathers is of a vivid lilac-vina- 

 ceous colour ; I have never met with any mention of this 

 singular character. 



Chettusia gregaria (Pall.). 



Our collection possesses a young female, picked up in the 

 market near the Pantheon at Rome in November 1872 by 

 Prof. V. de Romita, from whom I received it in exchange. 

 It is worthy of remark that, of the three specimens of this 

 species which have been captured in Italy, two were taken 

 near Rome, and a third not very far off, viz. at Siena. 



Chettusia villot^i (Audouin) . 



Our collection has the second specimen caught at Malta, 

 and mentioned by Mr. Wright (Ibis, 1870, p. 491). It is a 

 female^ and Avas captured on the 24th of October 1869 ; I 

 received it in exchange from the Malta University Museum. 



CURSORIUS GALLICUS (Gm.). 



A rare bird with us ; our collection has two specimens — 



