192 Messrs. Elwes and Buckley on the Birds of Turkey. 



72. Sturnus vulgaris, L. 



Common all over the country in flocks, and diff^ers neither 

 in plumage nor habits from English birds. 



73. Sturnus unicolor, La Marmora. 

 Found at Corfu by Lord Lilford. 



74. Pastor ROSEUs (L,). 



This bird is, in some years, very abundant in Bulgaria, but 

 does not come regularly. It is one of the latest summer visitors 

 to arrive, as the flocks do not make their appearance before the 

 latter end of May, when they at once take up their quarters in 

 a sandpit, or bank of earth, and commence nidification. The 

 nests are made at the end of a hole bored in the earth like a 

 Sand-Martin's, sometimes to a considerable depth. The eggs 

 are like a Starling's, but much more glossy and of a paler blue. 

 Near Milchooa, in the Dobrudscha, we saw the breeding-place 

 of a large colony ; and Mr. Barkley informed us that, in the 

 summer of 1867, a cutting on the Varna and Rustchuk rail- 

 way was frequented by two or three hundred of this species. 



75. Passer DOMESTicus (L.). 



This is the common Sparrow in all the Turkish towns that 

 we visited; and though Mr. Robson tells us that the Spanish 

 Sparrow is not uncommon in the Bosphorus, we never observed 

 it personally. 



76. Passer hispaniolensis (Temm.). 



Several specimens were in Mr. Robson's collection. 



77. Passer montanus (L.). 



Common in Macedonia, where it frequents the fields in flocks; 

 but we never remarked it in the towns, as Col. Drummond-Hay 

 seems to have done. 



78. Petronia stulta (Gmel.). 



Not observed by us, but is not uncommon near Constanti- 

 nople. 



79. Pyrrhula EUROPiEA, Leach. 



We did not see the Bullfinch in Bulgaria ; but it appears to 

 be common in other parts of the country. 



