8 Mr. P. J. C. McGregor on [Ibis, 



were rather restless in tlieir movements, but not sby, the 

 cock-bird constantly flitting from tree to tree and pouring 

 out his flute-like notes, often within a few yards of where I 

 was sitting, while the han was seldom seen except towards 

 evening, hopping among the lower branches with her mate 

 and feeding on grass-seeds or an occasional green caterpillar 

 from the willow-leaves. 



Rhoiopechys sangninea. Crlmsjn-winged Bullfinch. 



From the beginning of May onwards small flights are 

 frequently to be seen in the low-lying fields and waste land. 

 They are restless and shy, constantly flitting about with a 

 plaintively musical call. The rosy-pink colour of their 

 quills is very striking when a whole party rises from the 

 brown earth. Later on they frequent the same sort of 

 ground as tlie Ortolans, and I have often seen numbers 

 of them feeding with Sparrows outside the primitive 

 country flour-mills. My impression is that they ascend 

 a considerable height into the mountains and that they 

 liave two broods, as I have seen family-parties with young 

 Itardly able to fly as late as August 20. I never came 

 across any after September 6. So far as I was able to 

 observe, their song is a phrase of four or five notes 

 reminiscent of the Robin. 



Emberiza calandra. Corn-Bunting. 



One of the most prominent and characteristic features of 

 the summer landscape. The arid and unlovely stretches 

 of waste laud around the town are studded with tall bushes of 

 henbane, and every one of these sinistei'-looking ])lants 

 serves as a post of observation for the quarrelsome Corn- 

 Bunting, whose strident tones fitly voice the melancholy of 

 the scene. It arrives at the end of April and is also 

 abundant in the Passen Plain, taking its departure from 

 Erzerum in the first week of August. 



Emberiza citrinella. Yellow Hammer. 



In three successive years I saw small flocks between the 

 loth and the 30th of March, and on jNlay 14, 1911, 

 1 oljscrvcd a solitary spceinun. 



