Messrs. Elvves and Buckley on the Birds of Turkey. 59 



grey beneath, all the feathers irregularly banded and broadly 

 tipped with white, the bands at the base of the middle feather 

 being slightly narrower ; throat whitish ; rest of the under sur- 

 face of the body, with the under wing-coverts, dull leaden-grey; 

 vent and under tail-coverts white ; feathers of the leg dull grey ; 

 beak and talons black; feet yellow. Total length 24 inches, 

 beak from front 1*4, wing 12, tail 13, tarsus 3, middle toe 1*8, 

 hind toe 1. 



Mr. Gurney informs me that in the Leyden Museum, besides 

 the young specimen which formed the type of the species, there 

 is another, which has the upper parts of the same colour as the 

 specimen just described, but the under parts are of a rich rufous, 

 except the throat, which is white. 



126. AcciPiTER zoNABius, " Temm." ; Hartl. J. f. 0. 1855, 

 p. 360 ; Id., Orn. Westafr. p. 15. "Astur macrocelides, Temm.,^^ 

 Hartl., Orn. Westafr. p. 12 {juv.). 



A single adult specimen. This beautiful species was procured 

 by Heer Pel on the Rio Boutry. Mr, Gurney tells me that it 

 only differs from the southern A. tachiro in the much more 

 rufous colouring of the under parts in the adult ; and in this 

 respect the Abyssinian form to which Riippell gave the name of 

 A. undulivent7'is appears to hold an intermediate position. 



IV.— .4 list of the Birds of Turkey. By H. J. Elwes, F.Z.S., 

 late Captain Scots Fusilier Guards, and T. E. Buckley, 

 B.A., F.Z.S. 



It was only after some hesitation that we decided on offering this 

 paper to the readers of ' The Ibis '' under the above title, as it 

 is obvious that, with such scanty information as we at present 

 possess, a catalogue of the species found in a country so exten- 

 sive as that known under the name of Turkey in Europe must 

 be very incomplete. 



Of the ornithology of the north-western and central provinces, 

 next to nothing seems to be known ; and the rest of the country 

 has been only partially and imperfectly explored by a few 

 Englishmen, most of whom are included in the brotherhood of 

 ' The Ibis.' 



