220 Prof. H. H. Giglioli on the 



Larus fuscus, Linn. 



According to my experience this species is not common in 

 Italy. Our collection has two adults, male and female, and 

 a young specimen from Genoa, and an immature bird from 

 Cagliari. 



f Larus marinus, Linn. 



Quite accidental. I have a single immature specimen 

 from Genoa, received in exchange from the University 

 Museum of that city. I have seen several adult specimens 

 in the Carraro and Perini collections at Verona ; but it is very 

 doubtful whether they were captured in Italy. 



Lestris poMATORHiNUs, Tcmm. 



This is a rare species in Italy, but less so than its two 

 smaller congeners. Our collection possesses three specimens 

 — an adult female shot at Genoa on the 31st of May 1876, 

 and two young birds in dark plumage, one shot during the 

 winter of 1855 near Pinerolo (Piedmont), the other in the 

 winter of 1839 near Pisa. 



J, Lestris PARASITICUS (Briinn.). 



Salvadori gives this name to L. crepidatus, and mentions 

 this species as L. buffoni, assigning doubtfully to it a speci- 

 men in the Turin Museum shot in that neighbourhood. Our 

 collection possesses three undoubted L. parasitici, all im- 

 mature : the first was shot during the winter of 1854 near 

 Pinerolo j the second, a male, on the 17th of October 1876, 

 at Nice ; the third, a female, was shot on the 15th of Sep- 

 tember 1880, near Pisa. 



) Fratercula arctica (Linn.). 



Our collection has no less than eleven specimens of this 

 species, of both sexes and in every possible stage of plumage 

 and of bill ; most are from Genoa, one from Viareggio, one 

 from S. Vincenzo (Maremma), and one from Nice. Most of 

 them of them were shot during the winter ; but I have two 

 caught as late as the 27th of May, and I should not at aU be 

 surprised to hear that the Puffin occasionally breeds in the 

 Mediterranean. I have seen three specimens of this species 



