ORNITHOLOGIGAL NOTES 



ON 



TDIKTY ABKORMAl COIÖMID « ANATIDI » 



CAUGHT IN THE VENETIAN TERRITORY 



PROF. E. ARRIGONI DEGLI ODDI 

 Member of the Royal Venetian Institute, etc. 



I give here the descriptions and some annotations upon 

 several specimens of Anatid% killed in the Venetian 

 territory in these last years and preserved in the late 

 Count Ninni's Collection at Venice and in my own 

 Collection at Caoddo near Monselice in the province of 

 Padua. They belong to the following species : Anas boscas 

 Mareca penelope^ Daßla acuta, Querquedula crecca, 

 Aethyia ferina^ Nijroca africana^ all birds common in onr 

 lagoons and, marshes. These anomalies, which we can 

 refer to the albino and melanistic varietics, are very rarely 

 found in the family of Anatidse and I, having also the 

 opportunity to kill a great many Wild Ducks and to see 

 many thousands of them caught in the Estuary or brought 

 from everywhere to the markets, conld collect or observe 

 only these. I do not consider in this ornithological article 

 those specimens which present especially the underparts 

 ferruginous coloured which arepretty commonly killed in 

 spring, more easily in fresh waters. 



