60 Messrs. H. J. Elwes and T. E. Buckley 



As, however, no complete catalogue has yet been attempted, we 

 have collected all available information on the subject, including 

 the various notices which have appeared at different times in 

 this Journal and elsewhere *j and hoping that an imperfect list 

 will be considered better than none at all, we beg the utmost 

 indulgence on the part of our readers. 



A great many of our notes on the birds found in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Constantinople are derived from two ornithologists 

 who reside on the Bosphorus, and to whom our best tlianks are 

 due for the kindness with which they gave us all the informa- 

 tion in their power. 



M. Amedee Alleon, a French gentleman who has lived long- 

 in the country, has for the last four or five years been making 

 a collection of birds, which he himself mounts in a most artistic 

 manner, hardly to be surpassed even by Mr. Hancock ; and 

 though he has not as yet paid much attention to the smaller 

 species, he, v/ith M. Jules Vian, has contributed to the 'Revue 

 de Zoologie ' several papers on rare birds which have come under 

 their notice. Mr. T. Robson, who is known in England as the 

 discoverer of Acredula tephronota (Gunther)t, has also made a 

 large collection, principally oH Insessoj^es, and has sent to England 



* H. M. Dbummond, ' List of the Birds observed to w^inter in Mace- 

 donia, during a two months' Shooting Excm-sion in the Interior during 

 the winter of 1845-46.' Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, xviii. (1846) pp. 10-15. 



T. L. PowYS, ' Notes on Birds observed in the Ionian Islands, and the 

 Provinces of Albania proper, Epirus, Acarnania, and Montenegro.' Ibis, 

 1800, pp. 1-10, 133-140, 228-239, 338-357. 



W. H. Simpson, 'A Fortnight in the Dobrudscha.' Ibis, 1861, pp. 

 361-374. 



C. Farman, ' On some of the Birds of Prey of Central Bulgaria.' Ibis, 

 1868, pp. 400-414, 1869, pp. 199-204. 



A. Alleon, ' Note sur deux especes d'oiseaux.' Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 

 1867, pp. 3-7. 



A, Alleon et J. Vian, ' Des migrations des oiseaux de proie sur le 

 Bosphore de Constantinople.' Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1869, pp. 258-273, 

 305-315, 342-348 (still in coui-se of publication). 



It may prevent future mistakes to remark that the first three of the 

 gentleman above mentioned have since changed their names. Capt. 

 Drummond has become Col. Drummond-IIay, Mr. Powys Lord Lilford, 

 and Mr. Simpson Mr. Hudleston. 



t Ibis, 1865, p. 95, pi. iv. 



