to winter in Macedonia. 13 



villages, breeding under the eaves of the houses, and on the 13th of 

 June I took their eggs from the thatch of a cottage near Negotin in 

 Servia ; I also observed them to have the same habits in some parts 

 of Hungary. The roller and bee-eater I also found in great num- 

 bers, breeding in company on the banks of the Danube near Rud- 

 schuk in Bulgaria, on the 8th of June : they form their nests in holes 

 on the perpendicular banks like the sand martin, and invariably oc- 

 cupied the same places. 



Fringilla ccelebs. Most numerous, and found high up on the moun- 

 tains as well as the plains. 



F. montifringilla. A few seen. 



F. cannabina. Common. 



F. carduelis. Very common. 



Picus viridis. "1 



P. major. ?Very common, especially the latter. 



P. medius. J 



P. minor. Not so common as the above-mentioned. 



Sitta europcea. One or two seen. 



Certhia familiaris . This seems to be a rare bird here, as one in- 

 dividual only was observed. 



Alcedo ispida. Common. 



Columba palumbus. Common. 



C. anas. Very numerous and seen in large flocks. 



C. livia. Not nearly so common as the above. 



C. . A pair of these birds were seen flying about in a vil- 

 lage near Berea or Varea (as it is now pronounced), and were ap- 

 parently in a wild state. Not having seen Mr. Gould's valuable work 

 on the ' Birds of Europe,' I know not whether he has included the 

 collared or Barbary turtle in the European fauna ; it is however de- 

 serving of a place, as I observed them in all the towns and villages 

 in Bulgaria ; I also noticed them at Constantinople in the months of 

 May and June, when they were abundant, breeding in the cypresses 

 in the extensive cemeteries of Scutari and Pera. Capt. Kinloch, late 

 of the 42nd, informed me that they were abundant in Rhodes, and 

 that he had also found their nests in the cypress trees *. 



Phasianus colchicus. Very abundant, frequenting the dry reeds 

 and osier beds in the vicinity of the rivers and marshes : found only 

 on the plains, not known on the mountains. 



Perdix francolinus. I never observed this bird myself, but on the 

 authority of one of the peasants, an intelligent man, who gave me so 

 exact a description of the bird, I have ventured to give it a place in 

 this catalogue ; he informed me that they were rare, but that he had 

 shot them in the long grass near the sea. 



* As Capt. Drummond gives no description of this bird, it is uncertain 

 whether he here refers to the Turtur senega lensis (cambayensis, cegypliaea and 

 maculicollis of authors), first noticed as a European species by myself (Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1830, p. 100), and since found abundantly in Greece by Von dir 

 Miihle (Ornithologie Griechenlands, p. 83) ; or to the Turlur risoriua, a spe- 

 cies common in North Africa, and once met with by Naumann on the lial- 

 can (Wiegm. Archiv, 1837, p. 100). — H. B. Strickland. 



