THE IBIS. 



TENTH SERIES. 



Vol. II. No. 3. JULY 1914. 



XX. — Observations on the Bird-Life of the Anatolian Plateau 

 during the Summer of 1907. By L. N. G. Ramsay, M.A., 

 B.Sc. 



(Text-figure 6.) 



During the summer of 1907^ it was my good fortune to 

 spend several weeks in the interior of Asia Minor. My 

 attentions were devoted almost entirely to the natural history 

 of the country^ a considerable part of my time being spent 

 in the formation of a collection of the smaller Mammalia. It 

 was^ however^ the bird-life which interested me most, and in 

 this paper are embodied my ornithological observations. 

 Made in a region comparatively little subject to the visits 

 of naturalists, it is hoped that these notes may be of interest 

 to ornithologists. It will be well to begin by giving some 

 account of the districts visited, as typical of the interior of 

 Asia Minor. 



A glance at the map (text-fig. 6) will be sufficient to indi- 

 cate the whereabouts of the places to be mentioned. We left 

 Scutari on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles on May 18, 

 and arrived the same evening at Eski-Sheher, after four- 

 teen hours in the train. The line at first skirts the Gulf 

 of Ismid, then continues eastward to the river Sakaria, 

 whose valley and that of its tributary the Kara Su it follows 

 through very mountainous country, finally emerging into 

 the great plateau near Boz Uyuk. 



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