KOCK Sl’AHKOVV. 
in Anhalt. It is included in Savi’s “llirds of Tuscany,” 
but it does not appear to be a common bird there. 
Count Miible says that it is solitary in the whole of 
Greece on the bare stone walls, and very plentiful 
throughout the Grecian Islands. Lord Lilford, in his 
description of birds observed by him in the Ionian 
Islands, (‘‘Ibis,” vol. ii, p. 137,) says that he observed 
several of these birds in the Acrocerannian Mountains, 
in Maj^, 1857, and in Montenegro in August of the 
same year. It was found by Captain Loche in the 
three provinces of Algeria; and is included by Mr. 
Tristram in his list of the birds of Southern Palestine, 
where it is observed everywhere on the bare stony 
hills. Dr. Leith Adams informs me that it is very 
common in Sicily, occasionally visits Malta in the 
spring, and is abundant in Affghanistan. 
According to Naumann, to whose invaluable work I 
am indebted for most of the following information, it 
is a stationary bird in mild climates and a migratory 
one in cold countries. They associate in small flocks 
rather than greater multitudes, which are at all events 
never seen in Germany. In the Phinegau, especially 
near Wiesbaden, they are observed in autumn on fruit 
trees by the sides of the roads, and in corn-fields, in 
flocks. Brehm mentions flocks of about ten. They 
choose mountainous places for their residence, where, 
among rocks and ruins they love to dwell. In 
winter they mix with other birds, and are seen about 
the roads and villages, but it does not appear that 
they visit farm-yards. In autumn they are found in 
stubble-fields. They appear to avoid level land. At 
night they sleep in holes of walls and ruins, always 
choosing a hole with a very narrow entrance, and 
sheAV their sociable qualities by selecting places near 
