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Coturnix coturnix. The Quail. 



From the fact that these birds occasionally winter in the 

 south of England, it might be thought that some would pass 

 the winter in Alderney ; Imt this does not appear to be the 

 case, and Langlois can only recall one instance of the Quail 

 beino- seen there during the winter months, and this was one 

 he shot in November many years ago. All the breeding- 

 birds leave the island early, and mostly before the opening 

 of the shooting-season. 



XXIV. — Notes on Birds in South Bussia. 

 By Lieut. J. N. Kennedy, M.C, R.A., F.R.G.S., M.B.O.U. 



During my recent service with the British Military Mission 

 in southern Russia, I made occasional notes on birds, and I 

 have now put them together in this paper, more in the hope 

 that they may prove of use to future observers in these 

 regions, than in the belief that they contain any original 

 observations of value. 



After an extended tour through central and south Russia 

 during the autumn and early winter of 1919, I found 

 myself at Novorossisk, a little seaport near the northern 

 extremity of the Caucasus range. Our activities had been 

 much limited by the retreat and disorganisation of Denikin^s 

 Army, and at Novorossisk we were awaiting for some two 

 months the inevitable order to embark with the remains of 

 the forces. It was during this period that I found leisure 

 to make a small collection of bird-skins, and to compile the 

 notes which form the first section of this article. 



In the Crimea, after a short period of re-organisation of 

 the White Army, now commanded by General Wrangel, we 

 were involved once more, during the spring and summer 

 of 1920, in active operations, and I was unable to make any 

 systematic ornithological observations. I have therefore 

 contented myself, in the second section, with a few general 

 remarks on the Crimea, in which I include some suggestions 

 given to me by Lieutenant Y. Mtirtino, of the Russian Army, 



