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19. *Cotile rupestris Scop. 



I met with these Crag-Martins in the Kara Dagh. A 

 number of them frequenter! the crags and cliffs on the Goz 

 Dagh, where they probably bred in the numerous holes and 

 crevices, as some were seen entering these. I endeavoured 

 one day to reach some of the spots, but my pains were 

 unrewarded, except by some very close views of the birds as 

 they wheeled below, so that I was able to see plainly the 

 white spots on the webs of the outspread tail-feathers. 



On June 11, however, I found a nest built in a little 

 niche in an overhanging part of a cliflp in another part of 

 the Kara Dagh, near Deile. Standing underneath I could 

 almost reach this nest, and was able to see that it was built 

 of mud, much like that of a Swallow, and lined with 

 feathers. There was only the one pair of birds in the 

 neighbourhood of this nest. 



20. ■^Carduelis elegans Steph. 



I saw three different pairs of Goldfinches in the Kara 

 Dagh, all in the higher parts (5000 to 6000 feet). Of two of 

 these pairs the nests were found, the first empty on June 8, 

 the second on June 10 with four rather hard-set eggs. 

 Both were placed in oak bushes, in rough ground covered 

 with clumps of the same. 



At Konia on June 29 I saw a pair flying about accom- 

 panied by their young, and have also a note : " Goldfinches 

 are not uncommon about here.^^ 



21. Passer domesticus L. 



This species is mentioned in my list for Constantinople, 

 but unfortunately 1 have almost no notes of Sparrows. I wrote 

 down later, iu revising my journal, that I remembered seeing 

 a number of House-Sparrows at the station at Eski-Sheher 

 and also_, I thought, at other railway-stations. 



22. Passer hispaniolensis Temm. 



At two different railway-stations in the plateau I identi- 

 fied examples of this bird, the males of which are easily 

 distinguished from the House-Sparrow by the black ou the 



