614 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



moult ; and the third being a systematic account of the 396 

 species of which specimens have as yet been obtained or 

 observed on the island. Mr. Seebohm has kindly prepared a 

 very full abstract of this third portion, which we shall give 

 in our next number, so that we need say no more about 

 it now. 



As already mentioned (above, p. 299), it has now been 

 definitely arranged that the Gatke Collection shall remain 

 in the island, and form part of the Museum of the new 

 Imperial Zoological Station shortly to be founded there, so 

 that Heligoland will remain the Mecca of European ornitho- 

 logists, to which every ardent devotee of our science should 

 not fail to make a pilgrimage. 



98. Giglioli on the Results of the Ornithological Investi- 

 gation of Italy. 



[Primo Resocoiito dei Risultati della Inchiesta Ornitologica in Italia. 

 Parte terza ed ultima. Notizie d' Indole generals, Migrazioni, Nidifica- 

 zioue, Alimentazione, ecc. Compilato dal Dottore Enrico Hillyer Giglioli. 

 8vo. Fireuze : 1891. Pp. 518.] 



The third and last volume of Dr. Giglioli^s report (c/. Ibis, 

 1890, p. 114, and 1891, p. 131) is devoted to the information 

 of a general nature supplied to him by his collaborators in 

 the Ornithological Investigation of Italy. These observa- 

 tions are systematized under five heads : — (1) Those of a 

 general character, such as the increase and diminution of 

 certain species ; (2) those concerning migration ; (3) those 

 about nidifi cation ; (4) those relating to the food of different 

 species; and (5) statistics as to the number of individuals of 

 different species shot or captured. In a final Appendix three 

 new species are added to the previous list of the Italian 

 avifauna, namely, Budytes beema (Sykes), Cypselus affinis, 

 Hardw., and Falco barbarus, Linn., the last-named upon the 

 authority of Mr. Dresser's specimen of this bird obtained at 

 Malta in 1885 (see above, p. 363). 



