632 NOTES FROM THE SOUTH. 
STREPTOPELIA NISORIA. Collared Turtle-Dove. 
Seen on the roofs and in the gardens of Mostar. 
CACCABIS SAXATILIS. Greek Partridge. 
Distributed in tolerable abundance throughout Dalmatia in 
all suitable localities. In the Herzegovina it is even very 
plentiful, the strongly enforced game-laws and the disarma- 
ment of the population having caused a sudden increase in 
the numbers of this bird. During April in the neighbour- 
hood of Trébinje I often heard, for hours together, the loud 
ery that the cocks make when drumming. 
CoruRNIX COMMUNIS. Quail. 
Quails were often observed in Lacroma from the 10th to the 
end of March. I afterwards found no more until April 17th, 
when I again met with a single bird in a little field of oats in 
that island. In the neighbourhood of Trebinje the flight of 
Quail is often so large that very good shooting may be had. 
CEDICNEMUS OREPITANS. Stone-Curlew. 
On April 24th I saw a pair at a stony place on the shore of 
the Mar di Karin in Northern Dalmatia. 
VANELLUS ORISTATUS. Lapwing. 
From the 6th to the 10th of March, during cold stormy 
weather, I saw several flocks flying along the coast of Dal- 
matia in a northerly direction, and towards the end of the 
month I occasionally noticed solitary birds winging their way 
high above Lacroma. 
HaMAtopus OSTRALEGUS. Oyster-catcher. 
On April 4th I saw and killed one of these rare visitors to 
this district on the rocky coast of the little peninsula of Lapat 
between Ragusa and Gravosa. 
