50 Dr. Henry Giglioli on the Biy-ds observed at Pisa 



B. viridis, Scopoli [cinereocapilla, Savi). The common Ben- 

 galese species, more or less diffused over other parts of India. I 

 find this absolutely identical in species or race with numerous 

 examples collected in Egypt, the colour of the cap becoming of 

 a deep dark plumbeous, with blackish ear-coverts, and the chin 

 with submoustachial line bordering the ear-coverts, white. In 

 winter dress, younger specimens have a pale superciliary line 

 more or less developed ; and I do not know how such are to be 

 distinguished from the European B. fiava. 



III. — Notes on the Birds observed at Pisa and in its Neighbour- 

 hood during the Winter, Spring, and Summer of 1864. By 

 Henry Giglioli, Sc.D., C.M.Z.S. 



After the labours of that veteran ornithologist. Professor Savi, 

 in this part of Italy, it would have been presumptuous to think 

 of finding anything new here, and especially for me, whose 

 time has been taken up by studies w^hich require a much 

 more sedentary life than those of practical ornithology. How- 

 ever, having observed and studied the habits of a pretty good 

 number of Tuscan birds, I hope that a few extracts from my 

 notes will not prove uninteresting to the readers of the ' Ibis.^ 



I arrived at Pisa towards the end of December, and from that 

 time have constantly employed my leisure hours in the study of 

 my favourite science. What surprised me much, during my 

 peregrinations, was to find such a paucity of Raptorial birds. 

 "PharaoVs Hen" [Neojohron percnopterus) , though said to be 

 pretty common on the Monte Argentaro and in the Sienuese 

 Maremma, does not occur nearer Pisa ; and I never succeeded in 

 seeing one, though I kept up a sharp look-out. " Jean le Blanc " 

 [Circaetus gallicus) is pretty common, and I have met with it dur- 

 ing the winter in the pine-forests which border the sea-coast from 

 the Gombo to Leghorn. The Buzzard is also common in the same 

 places ; it belongs to the dark variety, named Falco (Buteo) pojana 

 by Savi. The Kite, said to be abundant, I have never seen ; while 

 towards the end of April I have met several flocks of the Red- 

 legged Falcon {Erythropus vesper tinus), among which I noticed 



