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NATURAL HISTORY. 



Found in Cyprus. 



4. Tetrao Francolinus uTToi.yy.vtx,^i. 



5. Tetrao Alchata -TrdfiSoiXog. 



6. Tet. Coturnix of,Tuyi. 



Names in parts of Greece. 



TTioStxox.oKKH'og 111 Gi'Eecia. 



In Thessaly. 



7. Phasianus Colchicus (pxa-xvi. 



8. Tetrao Perdix -/re^^iKa y.ocBHo-ii. 



9. Tet. TTapoaX:^. 



PASSERES. 



Found in Cyprus, 



1. Columba ffinas. dom. Trfpfc-repi ij|W6pa. 



2. C. Rupestris 



3. C. Palumbus 



4. C. Turtur 



5. C. Risoria 



6. Alauda Cristata 



7. A. Calandra 



8. A. Spinoletta 



TT. ocyfiix. 



<pa.<rcrai. ' 

 rpuyouvi. 



cKOfdocXoc. 

 accXaiiapa. 



Na7nes in parts of Greece. 

 Id. 

 Id. 

 Id. 

 Id. 



^sy.o;iToiipig in Thessal. 



Id. in Thessal. 



Id. 



Id. in -Graecia. 



Notes by the Editor. 



4. Tetrao Francolinus, perhaps the 'Arraya; of ancient Greece: it was a bird esteemed 

 by the Epicures ; " Tu attagenem ructas ; ego fuba ventrem impleo." Hierony. in Epis. 

 ad Asell. The bird was found in Boeotia (Acharn. 873.) not in Megaris, as Athenasus 

 states, lib. ix. c. 10. See Schw. in locum. We have seen it near Smyrna; and it is also 

 common, Russell says, in the country round Aleppo. 



5. " The Greeks (says Dr. Sibthorp) have given the name of Decoctoori to this bird 

 from its note, as the French apply the word diximit to our lapwing." 



7. Phasianus Colchicus. The pheasant, according to Soiinini, flies over from Thessaly 

 to some of the contiguous islands of the Archipelago. The bird was known at Athens 

 in the time of Aristophanes (Nubes, 108.) and had probably been brought into Greece 

 from Colchis, by the companions of Jason. See Beckmann deHis. Nat. Vet. 



6. Alaiula Cristata, the xopudaKXbi of the ancients. 



