328 Messrs. Elvves and Buckley on the Birds af Turkey. 



198. TeTRAO TETttlX, L. 



The only locality we at present know of for this bird is the 

 forest country about Vetova and Ishicklar in Bulgaria, not very 

 far from Rustchuk. In the oak-woods about here the Black 

 Grouse used to be common a few years ago, and several of the 

 engineers who made the Varna railway have killed them ; they 

 have become, however, more scarce of late. 



199. CaCCABIS GRiECA, Bp. 



Common on the mountains of Macedonia, and extremely 

 numerous on some of the Greek islands, but becoming scarce on 

 the mainland of Greece^ owing to the incessant shooting which 

 goes on at all seasons of the year. On the islands of Imbros 

 and Lemuos, off the entrance to the Dardanelles, the Greek 

 Partridge is so abundant that we were assured by a well-known 

 sportsman at Constantinople that fifty brace might be bagged 

 by a good shot with ease, at the end of August ; but the heat is 

 then so great, that few would care to expose themselves to the 

 sun except in the mornings and evenings. In Bulgaria we 

 never saw or heard of this bird. 



200. Perdix cinerea. Lath. 



By far the commonest game-bird, both in Macedonia and 

 Bulgaria. Very good bags are often made on the plains, as 

 soon as the harvest is got in ; and even the natives, who at pre- 

 sent are armed witli flint muskets live feet long, manage to 

 slaughter a good many. Though the Turks, as a nation, care 

 very little about sport, or any thing requiring exertion, yet vil- 

 lagers who are excellent pot-hunters and capital shots are some- 

 times found. 



201. CoTURNIX COMMUNIS, BoHU. 



Arrives in April in immense flocks, and disperses all over the 

 country to breed. A great many are killed on the shores of the 

 Bosphorus during the spring and autumn migrations, though 

 their capture is not carried on so systematically as in Italy. 



Kiister (Isis, 1842, pp. 611, 612), wherein it is said that Otis tardu was 

 evidently the species meant. From what we haveheen told of the nature 

 of the country, it would seem as likely to have heen Tdrao uroqallns. 

 —Ed.] 



