14 Mr. C. G. Danford on the 



78. Oriolus galbula, L, Sari asma (Yellow vine) . 



A few specimens were seen about the gardens of the in- 

 terior. The native name refers to the golden colour of dead 

 vine-leaves. 



79. PyCNONOTUS XANTHOPYGIUS (Elir.). 



Flocks of this bird were observed in the wooded moun- 

 tains near Gozna December 11th; a week later they had 

 disappeared. 



80. RUTICILLA PH(ENICURUS (L.). 



Not uncommon in gardens and wooden mountain districts 

 throughout the country. 



81. RUTICILLA MESOLEUCA, Ehr. 



Only obtained in the Taurus, where it is commoner than 

 the preceding, but more local. The following note on this 

 little-known species has already appeared in Mr. Dresser^s 

 work*. 



The river Sihoun (Sarus), after leaving the gorge of Anas- 

 cha, flows rapidly down a straight narrow valley, whose high 

 mountain-sides are in some places huge walls of purple-grey 

 and orange rock, and in others are clothed with the varying 

 greens of oak, fir, spruce, and cedar. Some four miles along 

 this valley, through willows [Salix purpurea) , tamarisks [Ta- 

 marix smyrnensis) , and thickets set with great whitethorns, 

 bring one to the summer village of Kara Pongar (black 

 spring) . It is a sorry collection of a dozen huts placed on a 

 grassy slope near the spring, which bursts in large volume from 

 a dark ivy-hung rock, and winds down to the river through a 

 most beautiful wood of plane and other trees. The ground 

 here was a perfect carpet of violets and primroses, with ane- 

 mones of every shade between deep purple and pure white. 

 Further on the scenery becomes very wild, the deciduous trees 

 cease, the rocks rise in jagged peaks, and the river tumbles 

 away down impassable ravines. 



This plane-grove is the haunt of both White-winged and 

 Common Redstarts, the former being rather the more nume- 

 rous. It is certainly much the shyer bird, perches high, drops 

 * Birds of Europe, pt. liv. 



