Ornithologij of Asia Minor. 23 



187. MONTIFRINGILLA NIVALIS (L.) 



It is with some hesitation that this bird is included in tne 

 present list^ it having only been identified with the binocular. 

 Still there is every probability that the birds which we met 

 with on the summit of the Anascha Mountains really were 

 Snow-Finches, as the species has been recorded by Canon 

 Tristram as inhabiting Mount Hermon and the Lebanon^. 



138. LiGURINUS CHLORIS (L.) . 



Generally distributed in the mountains, and also met witij 

 in the interior. 



139. LiNOTA CANNABINA (L.). 



Common in spring at Anascha. 



140. Carduelis spinus (L.). 



Generally distributed in the Taurus, but not numerous. 



141. Carduelis elegaxs, Steph. 



Generally common, but especially abundant in winter. 



142. Serinus hortulanus (Koch). 



This species was not observed during winter or in the 

 interior, but was common in the early spring among the pine- 

 woods. 



143. Serinus pusillus (Pall.). 



Very common, but also very local. The following account 

 of it has already appeared in the ' Birds of Europe ' f : — 



"The Kaisariyeh road diverges from the main track to 

 Eregli at Bozanti khan, and, after crossing the river by a ford, 

 leads up the northern side of the Ala dagh through a district 

 at first well-wooded with fir, which soon becomes interspersed 

 with bushes and juniper trees. The common Serin Finch had 

 been constantly observed in other parts of the mountains, 

 and still continued common; but it was here that the first 

 specimen of S. pusillus was shot, from a small flock by the 

 wayside. They were rather shy, and time did not admit of 

 their being then followed up ; so a long tramp from our halting- 



* Ibis, 1868, p. 208. t ' Birds of Europe,' pts. Iv., Ivi. 



