632 NOTES FROM THE SOUTH. 



STREPTOPELIA NISORIA. Collared Turtle-Dove. 

 Seen on the roofs and in the gardens of Mostar. 



CACCABIS SAXATILIS. Greek Partridge. 



Distributed in tolerable abundance throughout Dalmatia in 

 all suitable localities. In the Herzegovina it is even very 

 plentiful, the strongly enforced game-laws and the disarma- 

 ment of the population having caused a sudden increase in 

 the numbers of this bird. During April in the neighbour- 

 hood of Trebinje I often heard, for hours together, the loud 

 cry that the cocks make when drumming. 



COTURNIX COMMUNIS. Quail. 



Quails were often observed in Lacroma from the 10th to the 

 end of March. I afterwards found no more until April 17th, 

 when I again met with a single bird in a little field of oats in 

 that island. In the neighbourhood of Trebinje the flight of 

 Quail is often so large that very good shooting may be had. 



(EDICNEMUS CKEPITANS. Stone-Curlew. 



On April 24th I saw a pair at a stony place on the shore of 

 the Mar di Karin in Northern Dalmatia. 



VANELLUS CRISTATUS. Lapwing. 



From the 6th to the 10th of March, during cold stormy 

 weather, I saw several flocks flying along the coast of Dal- 

 matia in a northerly direction, and towards the end of the 

 month I occasionally noticed solitary birds winging their way 

 high above Lacroma. 



H^MATOPUS OSTRALEGUS. Oyster-catcher. 



On April 4th I saw and killed one of these rare visitors to 

 this district on the rocky coast of the little peninsula of Lapat 

 between Eagusa and Gravosa. 



