384 Mr. L. N. G. Eamsay on the 



May 26 I found an apparently deserted nest with two eggs, 

 which I believe was probably that of the White-tailed 

 Eagle, Haliaetus albicilla L,, a bird which Selous fonnd to 

 be common in Asia Minor (^British Birds/ Aug. 1907). 



The eggs were white^ and one measured 70 x 55 mm. 



The nest was a huge mass of sticks, four feet deep by six 

 in diameter, placed right upon the top of a twenty-foot oak 

 tree among the woods which clothed the slopes of Mahalitch 

 Dagh. 



45. "^Milvus ictinus Sav. 



Very common in Constantinople, especially at the old 

 walls of Stambul, where they fairly swarm. 



Kites were also common near towns and villages in the 

 plateau, and on May 26 I found an empty nest belonging 

 to a pair in the Kara Dagh. 



On May 11 and 12 those at Constantinople were laying. 

 On the 19tli a nest at Eski-Sheher had fresh eggs, and on 

 the 22nd a nest in the garden at H.B.M. Vice-Consulate at 

 Konia had two eggs and a chick. The young in this same 

 nest were full-fledged on June 30, but had not flown. 



46. *Falco cenchris Naum, 



The Lesser Kestrel was very common in the plateau, but 

 was not seen elsewhere. A number frequented the ruins 

 near Maden-Sheher in the Kara Dagh^ and in many other 

 districts they were numerous. A good many nest on the 

 ruined Zazadin Khan near Konia, where they had begun to 

 lay on May 22. One of the two eggs found there was 

 lying in contact with a Bock-Pigeon^s. On July 7 several 

 pairs were feeding young in the nest, chiefly with mice, at 

 Seja-ed-Din ; these nests were built in holes in mosques and 

 houses — one pair had a nest in a hole only five or six feet 

 from the ground at a corner where passers-by were frequent. 



Next day young birds were seen hunting "on their own''' in 

 the open coTintry, a favourite perch being the telegraph-wire. 



[47. Phalacrocorax carbo L. 



One seen on a breakwater in the Bosphorus.] 



