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Show 96 MR. SHARPE ON BIRDS IN THE HUME COLLECTION. [Feb. 2, acutely pointed muzzle, and the prominent nostrils, which open sublaterally, as also by the small upper premolar, the form of the ear, the tragus with a distinct lobe at the base of outer margin, and by its small feet. The wing-membrane does not extend so far outwards along the foot, and its colour is darker. This new species has also many characters common with V. afri-canus, Dobson, V. dobsoni (murinoides), and V. chinensis. 17. VESPERTILIO EMARGINATUS, Geoffr. In the Museum of Florence there are many specimens of this species found in different localities of South Italy, but I have not succeeded in procuring other specimens. 18. VESPERUGO NATTERERI, Kuhl. This species does not seem to be very common. I know of only two specimens from the South. The following Italian species of Chiroptera I have not yet found in the South ;- I. Rhinolophus blasii, Bias. 2. Vesperugo nathusii. 3. Vesperugo discolor. 4. Vesperugo leucippe. 5. Vespertilio daubentoni. 6. Vespertilio mystacinus. 7. Vespertilio bechsteinii. Naples, Nov. 1885. 3. Notes on Specimens in the Hume Collection of Birds. By R. B O W D L E R SHARPE, F.L.S. &C. No. 1. On the Hawfinch from Attock. [Eeceived January 14, 1886.] Three specimens of a Hawfinch were collected at Attock in the Punjab, in March 1869, and in February 1870, by Colonel Delme- Radcliffe. They are mentioned by Mr. H u m e in «The Ibis' for 1869, p. 456, and again in * Stray Feathers' for 1877, vol. vii. pp. 413, 462, and are there referred to C. vulgaris, i. e. C. coccothraustes (Linn.). In the H u m e Collection there were no specimens of true C. coccothraustes from Europe ; and the comparison of these specimens was therefore doubtless made with plates of the European bird ; but on comparing the three birds with a series of true C. coccothraustes, it seems to me certain that they are distinct from the European Hawfinch. The female differs from the corresponding sex of 0. coccothraustes in being ochreous brown above, pale ashy ochreous ou the lower |