1922.] some Cretan Birds. 683 



Caccabis graeca ? 



Fairly plentiful tlirouobout Crete, especially among the 

 barren ridges near Anapoli : I also found several coveys in 

 the highlands of Sphakia, near Lakkos, and the Omalos 

 Plain. 



I celebrated the first of September l)y working the rocky 

 ground near Anapoli, very rough walking and the heat 

 intense, but I got six brace of these red-legged Partridges, 

 among them four young birds, as big and strong on the wing 

 as their parents. I also shot several near Vigla, Amyro, 

 and Lakkos — in fact, they seemed fairly well distributed 

 throughout Crete. 



They were very similar to all the other Red-legged 

 Partridges, but these seemed to be decidedly smaller than 

 the well-known C^hukor of the Indian hills. 



Coturnix coturnix. 



Scarce, I shot a few round Candia, three on 4 December, 

 which points to their being resident. 



Rallus aquaticus. 



Common in the Amyro Marsh in September and October, 

 as was Porzana maruetta and Gallinula chloropus. the hist in 

 considerable numbers. 



Fulica atra. 



1 saw two Coots on a small marsh near Anapoli on 

 13 Noveml)er, also a few at Amyro during the winter. 



(Edicnemus oedicnemus. 



In my notes : — " 18 July. Walked to the foot of- the low 

 hills five miles west of Candia. On the stony ground along 

 the coast I saw a party of eight Norfolk Plover, and shot 

 two, one being a young bird ; on the same ground, on 

 16 August, I found them in great numbers among the sand- 

 hills and shot three, but must have seen over a hundred, 

 many of them this year's birds, so conclude they breed near 

 where I found them, probably in June. 



" In those I examined I could see no difference from the 

 Norfolk Plover 1 have shot in S[)ain, Morocco, and Malta. 



