191 8.] Birds of the Bessarahian Steppe. 289 



Passer domesticus and Passer montanus. Sparrow. At 

 Odessa, apparently the only Sparrow found round dwellings 

 is P. domesticus, tliough P. montanus occurs along the cliffs; 

 but west of the Dniester, as I observed while driving from 

 Bolgrad to Odessa, the Tree-Sparrow is as common as the 

 House-Sparrow round buildings, where the two species live 

 side by side, until at Reni (on the Roumanian frontier) the 

 Tree-Sparrow outnumbers the House-Sparrow by two to 

 one. It also breeds freely out in the country. 



Emberiza calandra. Corn -Bunting. Occasional near 

 cultivated ground. 



Galerida cristata. Crested Lark. Abundant, 



Motacilla flava. Blue-headed Wagtail. Occasional on 

 the banks of the Danube. 



Motacilla alba. White Wagtail. Common. Consider- 

 able flocks appeared in stormy weather with westerly winds 

 on August 16-17. 



Anthus campestris. Tawny Pipit. Not common. 



Parus cseruleus. Blue Tit. This species and the next 

 are not infrequent in the valleys. 



Parus major. Great Tit. 



Lanius minor. Lesser Grey Shrike. Very abundant in 

 the valleys until the end of August, when both old and young 

 disappeared. 



Lanius coUurio. Red-backed Shrike. Much less fre- 

 quent than the last, though nesting sometimes in an adjoining 

 tree. Remains till mid-September. 



Phylloscopus trochilus. Willow- Wren. Appeared in 

 considerable numbers in mid-September. 



