]7G SAVAGE SVANETIA. 



specimen of what I should most assuredly 

 have put down as the great copper butterfly, 

 only that I cannot conceive what a great 

 copper was doing in such an unlikely place. 



We also saw a bird which I have seen 

 once or twice since in Svanetia, and have not 

 been able to identify. His size was about 

 that of a jay, and his flight somewhat like 

 that bird's, only more undulating and not so 

 clumsy. His head, neck, and shoulders were 

 grey, body apparently chocolate -coloured, 

 while as he flew a crescent of rosy crimson 

 seemed to stretch from wing to wing. A few 

 of the wing feathers appeared to be tipped 

 with white. On the top of the ridge, besides 

 the bullfinch, I saw a pair of finches of some 

 kind, and numerous traces of the presence of 

 what, from Simon's description, I suppose to 

 have been black game ; but with the exception 

 of these and a hoopoe or two in the valley by 

 our camp, a landrail flushed in the corn by 



