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acutely pointed muzzle, and the prominent nostrils, which open 
sublaterally, as also by the small upper premolar, the form of the 
ear, the tragus with a distinct lobe at the base of outer margin, and 
by its small feet. 
The wing-membrane does not extend so far outwards along the 
foot, and its colour is darker. 
This new species has also many characters common with V. afri- 
canus, Dobson, V. dobsoni (murinoides), and V. chinensis. 
17. VESPERTILIO EMARGINATUS, Geoffr. 
In the Museum of Florence there are many specimens of this 
species found in different localities of South Italy, but I have not 
succeeded in procuring other specimens. 
18. VESPERUGO NATTERERI, Kuhl. 
This species does not seem to be very common. I know of only 
two specimens from the South. 
The following Italian species of Chiroptera I have not yet found 
in the South :— 
. Rhinolophus blasii, Blas. 
. Vesperugo nathusii. 
. Vesperugo discolor. 
. Vesperugo leucippe. 
. Vespertilio daubentoni. 
Vespertilio mystucinus. 
. Vespertilio bechsteinit. 
NEO OB CoN 
Naples, Noy. 1885. 
3. Notes on Specimens in the Hume Collection of Birds. 
By R. Bowpier Suarrg, F.L.S. &e. 
No. 1. On the Hawfinch from Attock. 
[Received January 14, 1886.] 
Three specimens of a Hawfinch were collected at Attock in the 
Punjab, in March 1869, and in February 1870, by Colonel Delmé- 
Radcliffe. They are mentioned by Mr. Hume in ‘ The Ibis’ for 1869, 
p- 456, and again in ‘Stray Feathers’ for 1877, vol. vii. pp. 413, 462, 
and are there referred to C. vulgaris, i. e. C. coccothraustes (Linn.). 
In the Hume Collection there were no specimens of true C. cocco- 
thraustes from Europe ; and the comparison of these specimens was 
therefore doubtless made with plates of the European bird; but on 
comparing the three birds with a series of true C. coccothraustes, 
it seems to me certain that they are distinct from the European Haw- 
finch. 
The female differs from the corresponding sex of C. coccothraustes 
in being ochreous brown above, pale ashy ochreous on the lower 
