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large Turkey oak in the plain. Some of their notes struck me 

 as unfamiliar, and their plumage as unusually bright, and tails 

 as rather short. 



Blue Tit {Parus cceruUiLs). — Several brightly-coloured 

 specimens were in the oak scrub at Suvla about October 20th. 



Great Grey Shrike {Lanhis excubitor).— Seen on May 12th 

 on a thorn-bush on the West Krithia Eoad. L. minor and L. 

 collurio arrived about that date. Immature specimens of the 

 latter were common at Suvla at the end of August and throughout 

 September. I saw one catch a large Hawk-Moth (probably 

 Ch(Brocamim eupliorhice) at dusk on the wing and devour it in 

 a tree near by. 



Spotted Flycatcher {Muscicapa grisola). — Seen on May 5th 

 at Helles ; not again till September, when they were common 

 about the camps on Suvla Plain, taking up their post at any 

 point where flies were particularly bad. 



Swallow {Hirundo rustica). — First seen at Mudros, in 

 Lemnos, on April 18th, going north in numbers. Again, on 

 May 11th and 12th, flying up the Aegean coast of Gallipoli (i. e. 

 north-east) in a continuous stream all day. Ditto May 15th, 

 17th, 19th. This date seemed very late for northward migration 

 still to be in progress. The only place where the Swallows 

 seemed to nest was Sedd-ul-bahr (May 31st). Earlier in 

 August they became commoner again, and were still inclined to 

 travel north-east. Indeed, there never appeared to be any 

 returning stream of migrants, at any rate before I came away, 

 near the end of October. 



Sand-Martin {Cotile ripavia). — One appeared on May 1st and 

 a few more on May 19th ; not seen again. 



Black-headed Bunting {Emberiza melanocephala) . — Small 

 flocks (ten to twenty in number) of both sexes of these birds 

 seemed to arrive May 6th-8th, frequenting the tracks and open 

 ground. They soon paired off, and were then less conspicuous, 

 particularly the females. The note of the male was often to be 

 heard early in the summer, but they grew gradually scarcer, and 

 I never saw or heard one after August 1st in the Gully. 



Calandra Lark {Melanocorypha calandra). — My only definite 

 record of this species is of a pair seen near " W" Beach on 

 April 30th. 



