Ornithology of Asia Minor. 91 
Any one wishing to shoot Tetraogallus cuspius could not 
do much better than make this his station, surrounded as it 
is by the rocky heights of Atlu, Sarp-churu, and Beirut, 
all easy to get at, and said to be haunted by plenty of Ur 
Kekhik. 
Next morning the sky gave unmistakable warning of bad 
weather; so, giving up our intention of trying for the big 
Partridges, we bastened on, and, after a long march by nar- 
row tracks along steep earthy hill-sides and stony stream- 
beds, reached some Kurdish huts just in time; for down 
came a violent snow-storm, which prevented our getting to 
Albistan for a couple of days. 
This small town is close to the Palanga-owa, where T’chi- 
hatcheff’s book had led us to expect wild sheep—-an illusion 
which inquiry quickly dispelled ; and we were fain to content 
ourselves with collecting the few birds then frequenting that 
cold upland region, and with trout-fishing at the springs of 
the Pyramus. The largest of these springs rises in great 
volume at the base of a limestone rock half an hour from the 
town, and, being shortly joimed by many others, forms, within 
a few hundred yards, a clear stream 20 to 30 yards wide, 
and of considerable depth. Init are numbers of trout, those 
which we caught averaging more than half a pound, two 
that were netted beimg 5 lb. and 3 lb. respectively, while lower 
down the river they are said to reach a weight of 15lb. The 
larger fish have very few red spots, are dark grey on the 
upper parts, dirty greenish yellow on the lower, and are 
broadly but obscurely barred ; such fish as were not perse- 
cuted by yellow leeches being as red-fleshed as ordinary 
sea-trout. 
Leaving Albistan March 8th, we went a day’s journey 
eastward to Jarpuz, at the foot of the Bim-boghas mountain. 
Here we had two remarkable finds—the first beg our bino- 
culars, which had been stolen in January at the far-away 
village of Osmanieh, and the loss of which had prevented 
the identification of many birds; the second was a stag’s 
horn of very singular form and great size, concerning the 
antiquity of which, and the species to which it belon 
authorities ave in doubt. 
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