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NOTES ON BIRDS SEEN DUEING THE GALLIPOLI 



CAMPAIGN. 



By D. a. J. Buxton. 



I HAD been intending to write a longer pajDer on the birds 

 seen during the Gallipoli campaign, but Captain Boyd's paper* 

 covers nearly all my ground and a great deal more besides. So 

 I will only add the few notes following. 



Common Wheatear {Saxicola cenanthe). — A neat in a ruined 

 farm on the West Krithia Road, on May 18th. The numbers 

 of this species seemed greatly increased at Suvla and on Imbros 

 in September, but very few, if any, stayed till the middle of 

 October. 



Redbreast (Erithacus riihecnla).— One seen on October 13th 

 and one a day or two later, at Suvla, in the oak- scrub. They 

 were very shy compared with English Robins. 



Sardinian Warbler {Sylvia mehuwcepJiala). — This bird was 

 common in the oak scrub round the Gully all the summer, and 

 at Suvla in September and October. Specially large numbers 

 were present towards the end of October. 



Yellow-browed Warbler {Plnillosco2)iis siijK'rciliostis). — I am 

 almost certain I identified this species in some walnuts near 

 Morto Bay on May 2ud and in the scrub at Suvla on October 21st. 

 On the latter date Phylloscopi of several species were very 

 abundant. 



Great Tit (Parus major). — Seen in the same walnuts as the 

 Phylloscopi in May ; not again till October 10th, at Suvla, in a 

 * 'Zoologist,' vol. XX, April, 1916, p. 121. 



