120 Coiii'iiauder H. Lyncs on a 



riutea. — Plentiful iu winter an 1 summer. 



Not noted in Smyrna and the Grecian Archipelago 

 between 24th July and 6th September. 



Cyprus. — In flocks 10th October. 



Corfu. — Plentiful in winter. 



Malta. — Winter visitor only. All appeared to have left 

 early in INIarch. 



[Only one specimen was obtained ( ? Corfu, Dec. 26, 

 1905), and this pnzzled me, being most like typical 

 C. carduelis, but it may have been a migrant. — H. F. JT.] 



Carduelis spinus (L.). 



The only Siskin met with was a single male near Athens 

 on 21st April. This Ijird was probably on migration, though 

 the testes were l.irge. The stomach was nearly empty, and 

 contained a few small seeds, small insects, and grit. 



Carduelis caxnabina mediterranea (Tschusi). 



This race of Linnet was met with in Egypt, where it was 

 a winter visitor, arriving about the 2jth of October, and in 

 Crete also in winter. As in the case of the Chaffinch many 

 individuals, perhaps all, left for the north in March, but 

 unlike that species, the numbers were augmented by fresh 

 arrivals from the south in April. These were still coming- 

 through uhen the ship left on 28th April. It was not 

 ascertained whether any Linnets breed in Crete. 



Linnets were winter visitors to Malta, but specimens were 

 not obtained. 



[One from Ciete (Feb. 27, 1906) and one from Port Said 

 (Nov. 10, 1906) were of this form—//. F. W.] 



Serinus canarius serinus (L.). 



Malta. — The Serin does not breed, though fairly plentiful 

 in winter, the birds collecting in flocks during the early part 

 of March and leaving the island before the end of that 

 month. 



Crete, — The Serin was found on the 7th of March, an.d 

 probably winters. No further notice was taken of the 

 species. 



