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as the species found in the surrounding woods were few and 

 far between. These woods mostly resemble the coverts in 

 the hilly parts of Devonshire. Oak trees, ivy-bound and 

 clematis-hung, form the staple growth. Mixed with these 

 are a good many evergreens and an undergrowth of thorn 

 and bramble, which creeps and twists about a debris of bluish 

 grey limestone patched with rich green moss. Higher up 

 are tall spruces and junipers {Juniperus drupacea, Labill.). 

 The fruit of the latter species is abundant and very orna- 

 mental, almost as large as a walnut, and covered with a pale 

 blue bloom, like a ripe plum. 



These woods are doubtless in summer well stocked with 

 birds. In winter they are principally inhabited by Wood- 

 peckers [Gecinus vlridis, Fiais medius, P. lilfordi, P. minor), 

 Nuthatches [Sitta cassia, S. krueperi) , a.nd Tits {Parus major, 

 P. lugubris, P. caruleus, P. ater, and Aeredula tephronota) . 

 The last-named species, and also the Gold- and Fire- crested 

 Wrens, were veiy common in a wood of mixed beech and oak 

 to the east of Gozna. This wood was further remarkable as 

 being of a singularly weird appearance, the rocks and the 

 lichens upon them, the branches and stems of the trees, and 

 the long beard-like mosses which hung from them, being 

 all of an almost unvarying tint of pale grey. 



During our stay at Gozna there was plenty of hard frost 

 and several heavy falls of snow, and it was Avith great diffi- 

 culty that horse-owners were induced to go further up into 

 the hills. However, the chief of a small village near by did 

 at last get together the necessary men and animals, and we 

 left for Zebil on January 3rd. The distance to that village 

 is, as the Crow flies, short ; but the snow which lay on the 

 upper levels, and the crossing of the deep valleys of Der- 

 men deresi (mill valley) and Pambouk deresi (cotton valley), 

 made the tramp rather a long one. Flocks of Hawfinches, 

 Goldfinches, Skylarks, and Pipits were met with on the way ; 

 and numbers of Fieldfares and a couple of Eagle Owls were 

 seen in a great forest of firs, through which the path led by 

 a descent of 2400 feet to the bottom of the Pambouk deresi, 

 along which flows the western bjanch of the Cydnus. The 



