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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 Salvadori and Giglioli, especially with regard to Count Camozzi's beautiful and interesting local collection; Stefanini, an unhappy stay-at-home birdskinner, 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 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 published, in a pamphlet, the Ornithological Dictionary of the Province, in

Zool. 4th ser. vol. V., January, 1907.