216 Prof. H. H. Giglioli on the 



mens — two adult males and two females, one in juvenile 

 garb ; they are respectively from Comacchio, Lugo, Borgo 

 S. Lorenzo (Florence), and Mantua. 



Pelecanus onocrotalus, Linn. 



Of accidental occurrence ; our collection possesses two 

 specimens — a male shot in autumn 1868 at Castelfiorentino, 

 near Siena, and a female shot in June 1836 at Empoli. 



Pelecanus crispus, Bruch. 



Salvadori doubts of the occurrence of this species in Italy 

 proper ; and, as far as his informations went, he was perfectly 

 correct ; but our collection possesses a magnificent male 

 which was shot at Norantola, near Modena, in 1865, and 

 placed until very lately in that museum under the name of 

 P. onocrotalus, being so called by Prof. Doderlein (Avif. Mod. 

 e Sicil. p. 224). I discovered the mistake, and secured the 

 specimen through exchange. A second P. crispus in our col- 

 lection is a female which was shot at the mouth of the Na- 

 renta on the 18th of May 1880. 



MiCROCARBO PYGM^US (Pall.). 



This is our rarest Cormorant ; but it has several times been 

 caught in Italy ; our collection has a single specimen from 

 Cagliari, May 1831. Besides the specimens mentioned by 

 Salvadori, I have seen one in Count D'Arco^s collection at 

 Mantua, shot there ; and two at Verona, both said to have 

 been shot on the lake of Garda : one is in the museum of the 

 Academy, the other in Signor De Betta^s private collection. 

 A male shot in the Royal Park of Racconigi, near Turin, is 

 in the Craveri collection at Bra, Piedmont. 



SULA BASSANA (LiuU.) . 



I have had the good fortune to add also this interesting spe- 

 cies to the Italian avifauna during the short -^pace of five years 

 that I have been engaged in collecting Italian Vertebrata. 

 Our collection possesses a young male still in dusky plumage, 

 caught with a harpoon in the Piombino channel on the 5th 

 of November 1877, by a fisherman; it is as yet unique. 



