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baskets to attract the birds to their houses, and they are as 

 familiar as Sparrows. They breed at least twice in the season 

 and prepare for the second brood by building what is practi- 

 cally a fresh nest on the top of the original structure. Troops 

 of these Doves make excursions to the ploughed fields and 

 threshing-floors, and I have found their nests at some 

 distance from the town. The Collared Dove's immunity 

 from molestation cannot be accounted for exclusively by the 

 dryness and insipidity of its flesh, for I have seen a rough 

 Albanian trooper risk life and limb in order to replace a 

 young bird in its nest among the slender branches of a tall 

 acacia. 



131. Caccabis saxatilis Wolf & Meyer. Red-legged 

 Partridge. 



Abundant at some distance from the town. 



132. Perdix cinerea Lath. Grey Partridge. 

 Resident and breeding in fair numbers, but often deci- 

 mated by severe winters. 



133. Coturnix communis (Bonn.). Quail. 



A certain number nest in the neighbourhood of the town, 

 but there are no great spring- and autumn-flights, and a bag 

 of a dozen is considered good. 



134. Rallus aquaticus L. Water-Rail. 



A live specimen was brought to me in March, 1904. 



135. Crex pratensis Bechst. Corn-Crake. 



Evidently not common. On the 29th and 30th of April, 

 1904, I heard the Corn-Crake in some fields near the town. 



136. Ortygometra porzana (L.). 



On April 25, 1905, a peasant brought me a live specimen, 

 which he declared he had caught in a tree near the town ! 



137. Gallinuea chloropus (L.). Waterhen. 



I saw a few at Kara Su in June, 1903, and on October 6 

 of the same year a young bird caught in a vineyard near 

 Monastir was brought to me. 



ser. viii. — vor,. VI. x 



