THE ZOOLOGIST 



No. 715. — Jcmuary, 1901. 



BIRD NOTES FROM BREMBANA VALLEY. 



By Prof. E. Arrigoni degli Oddi, 

 Member of the International Ornithological Committee. 



Amongst the Italian provinces, ornithologically speaking, 

 Bergamo is one of the less known. It was illustrated indeed, 

 many years ago, by Maironi da Ponte,* but his catalogues are 

 simple lists, full of all the mistakes of that epoch, and cannot 

 positively be relied on to-day ; besides, Bergamo is sometimes 

 mentioned in the excellent works of Salvador! and Giglioli, 

 especially with regard to Count Camozzi's beautiful and inter- 

 esting local collection ; Stefanini, an unhappy stay-at-home bird- 

 skinner, who died from having cut himself in stuffing a lion that 

 had succumbed to an illness, has written a list for the Italian 

 Ornithological Fauna, but it is very incomplete. Arrigoni f has 

 written about the history of Valsassina and neighbouring countries, 

 adding a catalogue of the birds, which for its simplicity is not 

 worth mentioning ; I have also in two notes spoken about some 

 abnormal coloured specimens of birds and hybrids preserved in 

 the Museum of Bergamo ; and, finally, the Rev. Caffi J published, 

 in a pamphlet, the Ornithological Dictionary of the Province, in 



'•• ' Dizionario Odeporico della Prov. di Bergamo.' Bergamo, 1819. The 

 same, ' I Tre Eegni della Natura nella Prov. Bergamasca ' (Atti Soc. Ital. 

 Sc, tom. six.). 



t ' Notizie Storiche della Valsassina e delle terre limitrofe ecc' Lecco, 

 1889. 



X ' Saggio di mi Dizionario dell' Avifauna Bergamasca.' Bergamo, 1898. 



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