214 Prof. H. H. Giglioli on the 



Italy ; we have a fine male shot on the 4th of March 1862 

 near Nice^ and another from Venice. 



Bernicla RuncoLLis (Pall.). 



One of the gems of our Italian ornithological series is an 

 adult male of this splendid Goose, shot at Scarperia, near 

 Florence, on the 12th of February 1869 {vide Ibis, 1869, 

 p. 242) . I have since seen another specimen, which looks 

 like a female, in the private collection of Count D'Arco, at 

 Mantua ; it was shot in that neighbourhood many years ago. 



-|-Casarca rutila (Pall.). 



Our collection possesses two fine specimens of this beauti- 

 ful bird, which is a great rarity in the Italian ornis. The 

 first, an adult male, was shot in Tuscany in 1839 ; the second, 

 a female, was shot in December 1842 at Lentini. I received 

 the latter in exchange from the Catania University Museum, 

 where a second female still remains ; I saw a third Sicilian 

 specimen in the Syracuse Museum. Apropos of the latter, 

 I almost believe that it may have been the innocent cause of 

 the alleged presence in that museum of a Sicilian specimen 

 of Chenalopex (jegyptiacus ; such curious blunders appear to 

 have been made in the Syracuse Museum ! 



Tadorna cornuta (S. G. Gm.). 



According to ray experience this is by no means a rare 

 Duck in Italy : and I can add that it occasionally appears to 

 breed here ; for our collection has a very young female shot 

 at Massaciuccoli on the 14th of August 1878. 



Marmaronetta angustirostris (Menetr.). 



This is a very rare species in Italy, and occasionally occurs 

 in Sardinia and Sicily. Our collection possesses the speci- 

 men which was figured in Bonaparte's ' Fauna Italica,' a 

 male, shot near Cagliari in June 1839, and still in perfect 

 condition. It was received in exchange from the Genoa 

 University Museum, and once belonged to Marquis Durazzo. 

 A male of this species is in the Naples University Museum, 

 shot with two more, one of which is now in Switzerland, 

 at Vico in 1858. 



