SAXICOLA AURITA AND MELANOLEUCA IN THE HUNGARIAN ORNIS. 477 
ing. Upon this collection were based those two authentical works on the 
Hungarian Ornis, for the publication of which we are indebted to the 
Second Ornithological Congress held at Budapest.* The referred to collec- 
tion has undergone lately a thorough transformation and rearrangement, 
at which occasion its failings became evident, so that the Direction of the 
H. N. Museum decided to take the necessary steps towards the completion 
of it, with reference chiefly to the wanting forms of the Mediterranean 
avifauna as peculiar to the Hungarian Littoral. The Hungarian National 
Museum entrusted me therefore with the task, to proceed in the month of 
May, accompanied by our preparator, to the comitat of Fiume-Modrus in 
order to make there studies on this subject during a fortnight. 
I started on the 5£ of May and though the aim of my journey was 
visiting Novi and its environs, I made a short stay at Fuzine lying almot 
in the centre of the Karst mountains, However the results of this stay 
were not satisfaetory, as the Mediterranean Fauna begins only on the 
other side of the Karst mountains, on the bare slopes of the coast. Passing 
Fiume I reached Novi on the 9t, where I immediately set to work. The 
results, which I obtained during a fortnight, are chiefly due to an order of 
the Hung. Roy. Ministry of Agriculture directing his Forest-Personal to 
give me all possible assistance in my work and to the kind services of 
Dr. Bocosrav Mazuranié, M. P., who not only guided me, but also ceded 
his shooting-grounds, most suitable for collecting purposes. 
Omitting the different species, which I succeeded to collect and to 
observe in the environs of Novi, however not yet represented in our collec- 
tion, but already mentioned in literature as: Sylvia orpheus, Emberiza 
cirlus, Budytes borealis, Micropus melba, Columba livia, Caccabis saxa- 
tis ete., I propose to speak in this article only of Saxicola aurita Tamm. 
and Saxicola melanoleuca (Günn.) 
On the 11 I was shooting at rockdoves, inhabiting the inaccessible 
holes of the rocky precipices of the sea-coast, east of Novi, in a small beach 
of the. borough of Povile, accompanied by Dr. Mazuranié and M. Ruporr 
de Haspu, roy. hung. forester, and had just been delighting in the first 
specimen brought down, when Preparator Birinyos — who in the mean 
time hed been going with his walking stick-gun in the surrounding 
shrubs — approached us helding up in his hand a white and black colou- 
red bird. It was the Eastern Black-throated Chat (Saxicola melanoleuca). 
His original design was to seek among the shrubs the nest of the Orphean 
* J. FRIVALDSZKY, Aves Hungariæ. 
Dr. J. von Maparisz, Erklärungen zu der aus Anlass des II. Internat. Ornith.- 
Congresses zu Budapest veranlassten Ausstellung der ungarischen Vogelfauna. 
