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and the " Krasso-Szorenyer Komitat " in South-east Hungary also belong to 

 the Alpine form, but I have not examined specimens from there. 



A. g. graeca inhabits Greece (mainland) and the Ionian Islands (west of 

 Greece), Macedonia, Albania, and ranges westwards to Montenegro, the Herzego- 

 vina and Bosnia to Dalmatia, evidently to the Karst. I have examined a few 

 Italian specimens, and I consider that they too, and therefore, I should say, 

 also the few that have survived, so far, in Sicily, and those formerly found on 

 Elba, belong to the south-eastern form. Mr. Ogilvie-Grant had unfortunately 

 not a single skin from Greece, and the one from Zante which he believed to be 

 a " chukar " is certainly a graeca. Though at present apparently not found on 

 Zante, A. g. graeca still occurs on other Ionian Islands. 



Forms of the chukar-gvoup occur west^\•ards to Asia Minor. Rhodes, Cj'prus, 

 and, curiously enough, to the Cj'clades and Northern Sporades, which, unUke 

 Cyprus and Rhodes, wliich belong to Asia Minor, belong geographically to 

 Greece. 



The form from Cyprus, of which I have examined a fine series, mostly col- 

 lected by Glaszner, differs from all named forms. It is nearest to A. g. koroviakovi 

 and falki, but the upperside is duller, the hind-neck darker grey, back more 

 reddish, and especially the crown of the head is darker, often almost quite dark 

 blue-grey without brown, or with only a faint brown tinge. It is not so dark 

 as A. g. chukar, and the crown is less brown. Wings : males, 162-169 mm. ; 

 females, 153-157 mm. I name the Cyprus race: 



Alectoris graeca Cypriotes subsp. nov. 



Tj'pe: (Jad., Galata, Cyprus, 21.iii. 1906. Ch. Glaszner leg. (In the Tring 

 Museum.) 



I have compared some specimens from Asia ]\Iinor (Smyrna, Eregli, Taurus) 

 and Rhodes ; some of these agree \\ell with the Cyprus form, others are (espe- 

 cially on the rump) more brownish. I must, provisionally, unite these with 

 A. g. Cypriotes, but I am not sure if, when a good series from similar months of 

 the year is compared, they cannot be again separated. 



A great uncertainty prevails about the Greek Partridges inhabiting Palestine 

 and the neighbouring countries. A specimen from Moab, east of the southern 

 part of the Dead Sea, is very pale and belongs probably to the Sinai form (sinaica 

 Bp.), of which I have, unfortunately, not been able to compare examples. Also 

 two skins in the British Museum, collected during the last third of j\Iarch near 

 Karyatein (not Kuryatein !) in the northern Syrian desert, on the road to Palmyra, 

 are very pale, very near to pallida, but more reddish. Do they perhaps also 

 belong to sinaica ? 



Two specimens from Engeddi (west of the Dead Sea) and from the " hills 

 of Judaea " are also very reddish, reminding one strongly of pubescens ; they agree 

 somewhat with the description of Caccabis chukar, var. margaritae Dawydoff 

 (Travaux Soc. Imp. Nat. St. Petersbourg, xxix. livr. 1898, pp. 57-63 (Russian), 

 p. 86 (German digest)), but Dawj'doff says that the crown is pure grey ! This is 

 not the case with the Engeddi and Judaea skins, which have the middle of the 

 crown reddish brown. I know only one subspecies with a pure grey crown, 

 and that is werae, described from South-west Persia. Specimens from El 

 Bussah and Hule in the Tristram Collection are again a shade darker than those 



