BIBD NOTES FROM BBEMBANA VALLEY. 5 



informed me. They were caught before 1848, and one which 

 was brought alive and lived some time subsequently became so 

 wild that it was found necessary to kill it. Count Camozzi added 

 also that his illustrious father, Senator Camozzi, has seen this 

 species on flight before 1848. The specimen preserved in Count 

 Turati's collection at Milan, labelled as caught on the Alps of 

 Lombardy in 1868, came instead from Switzerland, as I was 

 assured by Signor Bonomi, whose father preserved and set up 

 that grand bird. 



Amongst the Aquilce, the Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) 

 is not very rare ; it breeds in some very high spots in these 

 mountains, and it is not very seldom seen flying on the above- 

 mentioned Pizzo dei Tre Signori and Pizzo delDiavolo di Tenda, 

 on Mount Cervo (7675 ft.), Mount Pegherolo (7221 ft.). Mount 

 Pietra Quadra (6982 ft.), and in the mountains towards Como. 

 Dr. Giacomelli told me that in the month of May last year he 

 was offered two very young nestlings, taken from Cancerbero 

 (4027 ft.), of the size of a full-grown fowl, for about one shilling 

 each ; they were almost totally covered with white down ; but he 

 refused to buy them, not knowing what to do with them. I have 

 no local information about the other Italian Aquilince, but it 

 seems that a specimen of the Lesser Spotted Eagle (A. maculata) 

 was found dead, on May 1st of last year, by Dr. Giacomelli him- 

 self, on the north side of the Somnadello * sink-pit (4814 ft.) ; 

 it had been, some days before, severely wounded on the back, 

 and was then so decomposed that it was impossible to preserve 

 it; its skull, however, compared with that of ^. clanga appeared 

 quite different from the latter, and belonging to the lesser form, 

 which is more uncommon in Italy. The information about the 

 White-tailed Eagle {Haliaetus albicilla) is very uncertain and 

 contradictory, and cannot be relied upon. The Short-toed Eagle 

 {Circaetus gallicus) and Osprey {Pandion haliaetus) appear but 

 very seldom. 



Amongst the Buteonince, the Rough-legged Buzzard (Archi- 

 huteo lagopus) is very rare ; it has appeared only on the most 

 frigid days of severe winters, and I saw the remains of a speci- 

 men caught on Mount Azzarini (7307 ft.) in January, 1898. The 



-'■ Some people call it Sornadello, but the Guide of the C. A. J. and the 

 military maps of the Geographical Institute of Florence name it as above. 



