188 Messrs, Elwes and Buckley on the Birds of Turkeij. 



XIV.— ^ list of the Birds of Turkey. By H. J. Elwes, F.Z.S., 

 late Capt. Scots Fusilier Guards, and T. E. Buckley, B.A., 



r.z.s. 



(Continued from p. 77.) 



45. PlCUS MARTIUS, L. 



Found in the forests of Bulgaria, but nowhere numerous. 

 We shot one in rather open country near Rassova, where only a 

 few stunted oaks were found in the valleys. There can be no 

 doubt that the pine-forests of the Balkan are a favourite resort 

 of this bird ; but we never saw or heard it in Macedonia. 



46. Picus viRiDis, L. 



Common in all the woods of Turkey, and differs in no respect 

 from English specimens. 



47. Picus CANus, L. 



We observed one near Babadagh in Bulgaria, and it has been 

 shot several times near Constantinople by Mr. Robson. 



48. Picus major, L, 



Very common in all the wooded districts that we visited. 

 Some specimens shot in Macedonia are of a pure white under- 

 neath, instead of the usual dingy colour. 



Mr. Tristram, who some years ago examined a series of 

 specimens of this bird sent from Constantinople by Mr. Rob- 

 son, remarks that it is " an intermediate form between the 

 European Picus major and the P. syriacus of Hemprich and 

 Ehrenberg. It differs in the arrangement of the colours of the 

 neck-plumage very slightly from the western bird, but still 

 varies in the direction of the eastern." 



49. Picus MEDIUS, L. 



Common in Macedonia, and near Constantinople, frequent- 

 ing gardens and open country in preference to the deep forest. 



50. Picus LEUCONOTUS, L. 



Never observed by us, but has been killed by Mr. Robson 

 near Constantinople, and in Albania by Lord Lilford. 



51. PiCUS MINOR, L. 



The commonest Woodpecker in Macedonia, where it seems 

 to prefer the alders and willows in the marshy forests to the 



