THE IIHS. 



TENTH SERIES. 



Vol. V. No. 1. JANTARY 1917. 



T, — Xotes on liirds observed at Erzerum. By P. J. C. 

 McGkegor, .M.B.O.U., lately H.M. Consul for Palestine. 



The following list of birds observed at Erzerum is compiled 

 from a diary kept regularly during a residence in that town 

 from January 1910 to April 1912, and is supplemented by a 

 fcNv notes regarding the times of arrival and departure of 

 some species. 



It should be stated at the outset that the list is neces- 

 sarily far from complete, as, in addition to the limitations 

 imposed by my ordinary duties, it was found impossiljle to 

 make a systematic exploration of the Kara Su marshes, 

 which is precisely the part of the Erzerum plateau where 

 bird-life is probably most abundant. The notes relate, in 

 fact, almost exclusively to the birds to be met with in a 

 radius of five or six miles from the town itself, and they 

 are offered, to the reader merely on account of the com- 

 parative meagreness of previous observations in this region, 



Erzerum is situated at a height of about 6100 feet on the 

 southern side of the vast and desolate plain watered by the 

 Kara Su, an affluent of the Euphrates. It is about 160 miles 

 in a direct line from Trebizoud and 120 miles from Kars. 

 To the north the plain is Ijounded by lofty mountains, the 



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