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41. ^Athene noctua Scop. 



The Little Owl, the only Owl I saw, appeared to be pretty 

 ■well distributed in i\sia Minor. I have notes of it from 

 Scutari, the railway between Eski-Sheher and Konia, Bos 

 Dagh, Kara Dagh, and Eski-Sheher district. It was often 

 seen out in broad daylight, but one which I caught in 

 an underground passage beside Bos Dagh seemed dazed on 

 being brought into the sun, and did not struggle at all. 



42. *Gyps fulvns Gmel. 



Half-a-dozen of these Vultures were sometimes seen at 

 one time near Maden-Sheher in the Kara Dagh, and one 

 day I had an opportunity of examining a bird which had 

 been shot by a villager. Other Vultures seen at carcases in 

 the plains in the Konia district were, 1 think, also Griffons. 



43. ^Neophron percnopterus L. 



Several seen near Scutari, one seen near Konia. 



In the Kara Dagh two or three pairs of Egyptian Vultures 

 nested on Goz Dagh. High up on the face of the cliff of 

 the great pit on Goz Dagh, several little circular chambers 

 with rectangular window-like entrances had been carved out 

 of the living rock by the hand of man in past ages, and these 

 now formed the Vultures' nurseries. One of them was 

 reached without difficulty by a series of narrow ledges, and 

 in it I found two eggs, one of which was empty with a big 

 gash in the side. The other I took, but found it considerably 

 incubated (May 28). It is an unusually long specimen, 

 measuring 75x52 mm. The nest was formed of a few 

 sticks, garnished with wool and odds and ends of various 

 character. The floor of the chamber was thickly strewn 

 with tortoise-shells, few of which were above three or four 

 inches in length. The majority were unbroken. Tortoises 

 are very common in the Kara Dagh. 



[44. Buteo vulgaris Leach, subsp. 



One or two seen near Scutari, May 13.] 



Eagles of one or more species were seen not infrequently 

 in the Kara Dagh. I was unable to identify these, but on 



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