Messrs. Elwes and Buckley on the Birds of Turkey. 201 



Not uncommon in Macedonia and Bulgaria, but not so 

 numerous as in Greece, where it is the commonest species of 

 Pigeon. Great numbers are brought to the market at Athens 

 for food. 



194. CoLUMBA LiviA, Tcmm. 



Eock-Pigeons are found all up the Turkish coast of the Black 

 sea, and probably in other localities. The only specimen we 

 got was shot in the harbour of Sevastopol ; and it resembled 

 C schimperi more than C. livia, though the rump was of a 

 lighter colour than the rest of the back. There were plenty 

 of them about the rocks on the north side of the harbour, and 

 they appeared quite wild. 



195. TuRTUR VULGARIS, Eytou. 



Mr. Robson informed us that this Dove is common in 

 summer. 



196. TuRTUR RISORIUS (L.). 



It is curious that this bird was so long denied a place in the 

 European list of birds, as it inhabits most of the towns and 

 villages in the south of Turkey, and remains all the winter. In 

 Constantinople it is especially numerous, and also in some of 

 the Macedonian villages, which are interspersed with trees and 

 gardens. It appears to love the neighbourhood of dwellings, 

 and may be seen sitting like a Sparrow on the roofs of the 

 houses, where it is never molested by the Turks. It breeds in 

 the cypresses which almost universally adorn a Turkish grave- 

 yard, and in the immense old plane trees in the bazaars. 



[To be continued.] 



XV. — On rare or little-known Limicolse. 

 By James Edmund Harting, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



(Plates v., VI.) 



(Continued from ' The Ibis ' for 1869, p. 434.) 



An attempt to identify the Charadrius asiaticus of Pallas, neces- 

 sitates the examination of a vei-y beautiful group of Plovers. 

 The peculiarity which, for the present purpose, connects the 



