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branch are Audouin's gull (JLarus audouini)* E. aureola y 

 the little bunting (E. pusilla\ E. c<esia, and the Eleonora 

 falcon (Falco eleonor^}^ all killed in the neighbourhood 

 of Genoa. The collection is also rich in bats (Cheiroptera), 

 of which order Doria has met with fourteen species in 

 this neighbourhood. He is an excellent fellow and most 

 obliging, kindly presenting me with Salvadori's work on 

 the birds of Italy, two numbers of Proceedings of this 

 museum society, and some reptiles. He told me very 

 many interesting facts: viz., the present abundance of the 

 ibex in the Royal preserves near Aosta, the occasional 

 visits to Genoa in large numbers of the rose-coloured 

 starling and the nutcracker, and the abundance of a seal 

 (Phoca monacha] on the islet of Cervoli, south of Elba. 

 In the gardens attached to the museum there are a few 

 living animals ; for example a fine tiger, a puma, a 

 Sardinian red deer, and a male and female moufflon, and 

 an eagle which I take to be the spotted eagle (Aquila 

 n^eina). He has a very fine male specimen of the 

 francolin (F. vulgaris\ which he obtained about four years 

 ago from Sicily, where it formed part of a collection made 



* Audouin's Gull (Larus audouini), an extremely beautiful gull 

 with a black-banded coral-red bill, and eyelids of the same colour. 

 Lord Lilford (see later) recorded it from Vacca, off the S.W. point of 

 Sardinia, its most westerly known breeding-place. When the Editor 

 visited this little island in 1896 he found it much infested by rats. 



t La Marmora's, or the Eleonora Falcon (Falco eleonorcs), is a 

 member of the hobby group of falcons. It is an inhabitant of lands 

 on the southern border of the Mediterranean, and Lord Lilford (see 

 later) records it from Toro, near Vacca. 



