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addition many visitors on migration are mentioned for [he first 
time. It must, however, be admitted that in several cases the 
evidence is far from conclusive, and confirmation is required, 
e. g\, Gecinus viridis, Athene noctaa (said to be resident and not 
rare), Tadorna cornuta, &c. 
1891. J. Backhouse, “Winter Notes from Corsica,” Zoologist, 1891, 
pp. 371-376.—A briefly annotated list of about 76 species observed 
in December 1890 and January 1891, chiefly in the neighbourhood 
of Ajaccio. 
1897. H. C. Playne, “ Ornithological Notes from Corsica,” Zoologist, 
1897, pp. 254-257.—A list of 60 species observed between 
April 10 and 21, 1897, while walking from Ajaccio across the 
mountains to the east coast and thence back to Corte. 
1898. H. C. Playne, Zoologist, 1898, p. 275. Correction.—After a 
second visit in April 1898 two errors of identihcation in the 
previous paper were discovered (Citril Finch and Wood-Lark for 
Serin and Crested Lark) and two other species were added to the 
list. 
1899. Dr. A. Koenig, Ornithologische Monatsberichte, vii. p. 120, 
“ Eine neue Vogelart von der Insel Corsica.” (Description of 
Citrinella corsicana with diagnosis.) 
1900. A. D. Sapsworth, Bulletin Br. Orn. Club, xi. p. 12. Exhibition 
of skins of Sitta whiteheadi and note on the Corsican Dipper. 
1901. Dr. A. Koenig, Journal fur Ornithologie, 1901, p. 99. 
(Remarks on rare species from the Mediterranean Region, including 
Sitta whiteheadi, Citrinella corsicana, and the Corsican race ol 
Cinclus, obtained in Corsica during the spring of 1896.) 
1901. [Pastor O. Kleinschmidt, Ornithologische Monatsberichte, ix. 
pp. 167-169, “ Beschreibung neuer Formen aus Tunesien und 
Sardinien.” (Includes descriptions of Strix ernesti , Accipiter 
wolterstorffi, and a Dendrocopus , and notes on Laniidee from 
Sardinia).] 
1902. [Conte Arrigoni degli Oddi, 1 Avicula,’ vi. pp. 102-4. 
(Descriptions of Dendrocopus major harterti, Cotile obsoleta sarda, 
Sylvia atricapilla pauluccii , Petronia petronia hellmayri, and 
Cardaelis carduelis tschusii, from Sardinia.)] 
1902. Conte Arrigoni degli Oddi, ‘Atlante Ornitologico,’ p. 150. 
(Description of Cinclus cinclus sapsworthi from Corsica.) Cf. also 
Hartert, Bulletin Br. Orn. Club, xiv. p. 51 (1904), sub nomine 
Cinclus cinclus sardus (Sardinia). 
1903. Pastor O. Kleinschmidt, Ornithologische Monatsber. xi. p. 6,. 
“ Parus corsus, forma nova ” (Corsica) ; t. c. xi. p. 92, “ Neue 
Formen von Sardinien” (Descriptions of Corvus sardus, 
C. sardonius, and Garrulus ichnusce : Sardinia) ; t. c. xi. p. 152 
(Description of Astur gentilis arriaonii : Sardinia) ; L c. xi. p. 186 
“ Parus sardus, forma nova ” (Sardinia). 
