Messrs. Elwes and Buckley on the Birds of Turkey. 327 



It was a bird of the year, and measured as follows : — Length 

 9*5; wing 5*125; tail 3*25; tarsus 1'25; spread foot 1/625; 

 bill from front '8125, from gape 1-1875; extent 15 inches. 

 The species is apparently rare, as this was the only specimen that 

 I procured. 



371. Oreocincla dauma. Small-billed Mountain-Thrush. 



The name of " Mountain-Thrush " cannot be very correctly 

 applied to this species ; for I have previously recorded it (Ibis, 

 1865, p. 423) from Maunbhoom, and I have killed an example 

 in a garden, December 18th, 1866, at Morar, near Gvvalior, both 

 of which places are in the plains of India, and the latter far from 

 any mountain-range. The Morar bird was very wary, feeding 

 under the bushes in the garden, and apparently solitary ; when 

 disturbed it flew into a thick mango-tree, where I shot it. The 

 dimensions were as follows: — Length 10*75; wing 5'625 ; tail 

 3'45; tarsus 1-25; spread foot 2*375; bill from front '875, 

 from gape 1*25 ; extent 17 inches. The irides were dark brown, 

 the bill and legs pale flesh-colour, the former with a tinge of 

 green on the lower mandible. The upper mandible was dark 

 horny. 



XXIIL— ^ List of the Birds of Turkey. By H. J. Elwes, 

 F.Z.S., late Capt. Scots Fusilier Guards, and T.E.Buckley, 

 B.A., F.Z.S. 



(Concluded from p. 201.) 



? 197. Tetrao urogallus, L. 



We were told by various persons of a large bird found in the 

 pine-forests of the Balkan mountains, which we think must be 

 the Capercally, though we have no positive evidence as to its 

 existence there. Its occurrence, however, in Spain in as low a 

 latitude, of which there can be no doubt (Ibis, 1866, p. 383), 

 would render our supposition less improbable than it might at 

 first sight seem*. 



* [It will be remembered that Temminck (Man. d'Orn. iv. p. 313) 

 mentions, on the authority of M. Cantraine, the occurrence of " Wild 

 Turkeys " in Dalmatia. Prof. Andreas Wagner (Rep. Progr. Zool. 1842, 

 p. 85, Ray Soc.) explains the statement by reference to a paper by Dr. 



