520 ORNITHOLOGICAL SKETCHES 



67. TURTUR SENEGALENSIS. Egyptian Turtle-Dove. 

 Very common throughout Egypt in cultivated ground, on 



all roads and clumps of trees, but especially in gardens, even 

 within the towns. 



68. CHALCOPELIA AFRA. Emerald-spotted Dove. 



Only once seen at Kom-el-Emir, in Upper Egypt, where a 

 pair of these strikingly small and beautiful pigeons were 

 sitting on a mud-heap among the fields near the Nile. At 

 my approach one flew away ; the other remained, and fell to 

 my gun. This pigeon is really a native of Nubia and the 

 interior. 



69. CACCABIS SAXATILIS. Rock-Partridge *. 



The first specimens, a paired couple, were observed between 

 Jaffa and Jerusalem. Between Latrun and Jerusalem we 

 saw more of them among the hills that were covered with 

 bushes and large masses of rock. About Jerusalem, Bethle- 

 hem, and the road to the Dead Sea this beautiful partridge 

 occurred everywhere ; but as the natives are always after it, 

 it was nowhere common. In the valley of the Jordan it 

 chiefly frequents the broad watercourses that run from the 

 mountains and across the plains down to the river. These 

 watercourses are filled with large stones and impenetrable 

 thickets; and in these favourable localities many partridges are 

 to be found, and a good bag of these by no means shy birds 

 can easily be made. The Asiatic bird is, indeed, precisely the 

 same species as the Rock-Partridge of the Balkan peninsula 

 and the Greek islands, but it is larger and finer in colour. 



70. CACCABIS PETROSA. Cliff- Partridge |. 



The first specimens were seen on the barren mountains 



* [" Steinhuhn." The Red-legged Partridge of Palestine is now gene- 

 rally considered to be the eastern species Caccabis chukar.'] 



t [" Klippenhuhn." This undoubtedly refers to Hey's Partridge (Am- 

 moperdix heyi).~\ 



