62 Messrs. P. L. Sclatcr and E. C. Taylor's 



abundant in the same spots ; l)ut the present bird (which we 

 had never seen in life before) is at once recognizable by the 

 conspicuous white in the tail as it flits away. 



2. TURTUR RISORIUS. 



One of the most striking ornithological features of Con- 

 stantinople, at the season when we visited it, is certainly the 

 gi'cat numbers of Collared Turtledoves [Turtur risorius), 

 which absolutely swarm all over Stamboul. You see them 

 flying about the Golden Horn, and perching on the masts and 

 rigging of the ships. The trees in the Seraglio gardens, and 

 in the courts of the mosques, are alive with them; and we often 

 saw them resting on the roofs of the houses in company with 

 the tame Pigeons. They are not nearly so abundant in Pera 

 or Galata as in Stamboul ; and out in the country we never 

 observed them at all. Mr. Taylor, in this Journal for 1864 

 (p. 410), first called attention to the claim of Turtur risorius 

 to a place in the list of European birds, having observed it in 

 Constantinople in April of that year. M. Alleon subsequently 

 (Rev. Zool. 1867, p. 5) published an article on the same 

 subject. 



One day when walking in the middle of the city of Stam- 

 boul, Taylor was surprised to see an example of a very familiar 

 old friend, the Egyptian Turtledove (Turtur senegalensis) , 

 perching on a wall just over his head. This species swarms 

 all over Egypt, both in town and country, but was hardly ex- 

 pected to be met with here. We were afterwards told by Air. 

 Pearse that it not unfrequently occurs ; and we found a spe- 

 cimen of it at Bebek College. 



3. Garrulus glandarius. 



We were on the look-out for Jays, which are found wliere- 

 ever trees grow on the shores of the Bosphorus, in order to 

 ascertain whether the ordinary form here is G. glandarius or 

 the Black-headed G. krynickii. We saw them several times 

 flying about among the cypress trees in the great cemetery 

 at Scutari, and also in other places in the environs of Con- 



the autumn migration. But there are several adult males in the Bebek 

 College collection, besides the one mentioned above, which we prw. 



