520 ORNITHOLOGICAL SKETCHES 
67. TURTUR SENEGALENSIS. Hgyptian Turtle-Dove. 
Very common throughout Egypt in cultivated ground, on 
all roads and clumps of trees, but especially in gardens, even 
within the towns. 
68. CHALCOPELIA AFRA. Hmerald-spotted Dove. 
Only once seen at Kom-el-Hmir, in Upper Egypt, where a 
pair of these strikingly small and beautiful pigeons were 
sitting on a mud-heap among the fields near the Nile. At 
my approach one flew away ; the other remained, and fell to 
my gun. This pigeon is really a native of Nubia and the 
interior. 
69, CACCABIS SAXATILIS. Rock-Partridge *. 
The first specimens, a paired couple, were observed between 
Jaffa and Jerusalem. Between Latrun and Jerusalem we 
saw more of them among the hills that were covered with 
bushes and large masses of rock. About Jerusalem, Bethle- 
hem, and the road to the Dead Sea this beautiful partridge 
occurred everywhere ; but as the natives are always after it, 
it was nowhere common. In the valley of the Jordan it 
chiefly frequents the broad watercourses that run from the 
mountains and across the plains down to the river. These 
watercourses are filled with large stones and impenetrable 
thickets; and in these favourable localities many partridges are 
to be found, and a good bag of these by no means shy birds 
can eusily be made. The Asiatic bird is, indeed, precisely the 
same species as the Rock-Partridge of the Balkan peninsula 
and the Greek islands, but it is larger and finer in colour. 
70. CaccABIS PETROSA.  Cliff- Partridge f. 
The first specimens were seen on the barren mountains 
* [“Steinhuhn.” The Red-legged Partridge of Palestine is now gene- 
rally considered to be the eastern species Caccahis chukar. | 
+ [“ Klippenhuhn.” This undoubtedly refers to Hey’s Partridge (.4m- 
moperdix hey?). | 
