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ing scenes so bewitching. Each bend in the shore (and 

 bends were the rule, not the exception) seemed to present a 

 more beautiful picture than the last. The finest view of all 

 appeared to be the one directly above Bebek, with its ancient 

 defensive walls and towers and the handsome, new buildings 

 of Robert College crowning the summit of the hill. Only a 

 few birds were seen during the morning hours spent on the 

 college grounds. Flocks of noisy Jackdaws frequently flew 

 overhead. There were seen my first Common Wren (Trog- 

 lodytes parvulus) and my first Blue Titmouse (Pants cceru- 

 leus) besides the Great Titmouse and female Chaffinch, which 

 v/ere fast becoming old acquaintances. While on the Bos- 

 phorus excursion there were seen the Hooded Crow, an Al- 

 pine Swift and the Gulls as usual ; also more shorebirds than 

 on previous days. Several sizes of them could be distin- 

 guished, and they were in flocks numbering from thirty to 

 one hundred, making in the aggregate a thousand or more 

 birds ; nearly that number were counted. 



Our last contact with the soil of Asia was made upon the 

 trip to Scutari. In a cemetery in which are buried eight 

 thousand soldiers, who died in the Crimean War, a bird was 

 singing blithely his vernal song. It proved to be a male 

 Chaffinch, the first one I had noted. As we sailed into the 

 Sea of Mamora late that day the graceful outlines of Con- 

 stantinople were tenderly enfolded in the violet-hues of even- 

 ing, touched here and there by the afterglow of sunset. 



FALL MIGRATION RECORDS (1906-1915) AT ANN 

 ARBOR, MICHIGAN. 



BY A. D. TINKER AND N. A. WOOD. 



The following series of tabulated records represents the 

 combined field-work of Mr. F. O. Novy, the authors and 

 other observers in the vicinity of Ann Arbor, Michigan, dur- 

 ing the fall migrations of the years 1906-1915 inclusive. The 

 immediate vicinity of Ann Arbor has been pretty thoroughly 

 worked, but the outlying districts have not received the atten- 



