100 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
The black parts were intensely glossy black, the white a decided 
white, and the grey a cold grey without a tinge of brown or 
olive. I could not detect any difference in the note. With them 
were a Blue Tit and a pair of Great Tits (Parus major) ; the 
latter showed less yellow, and their note seemed less strident 
than the British bird’s. 
March 22nd.—I heard the trill of Bonelli’s Warbler (Phyllo- 
scopus bonellii) from the house. It remained on the hillside, 
and I saw and heard it again on several days. 
We rode to the Gygean Lake (Mermere Gol) through Sart, 
fording the Tabakchai, across the grassy, rushy plain, and 
reached the ferry over the Hermus in an hour. The low scrub 
was resonant with the grasshopper-like note of a Warbler. The 
land north of the Hermus was very marshy for three-quarters 
of an hour, then it rose and became stony, recalling parts of 
the Wiltshire downs that have gone out of cultivation. Tall 
spikes of last summer’s hoilyhocks had Corn-Buntings (Hmberiza 
miliaria) sitting on them, and occasionally a Kestrel. Several 
sorts of Larks in pairs and small flocks, some distinctly crested, 
but whether the Wood-lark (Alauda arborea) or Corydus cristatus 
I could not make certain. Leaving the huge tumulus of 
Alyattes on our right we crossed three ridges of limestone and 
dropped on to the lake. It was a beautiful sight, absolutely 
smooth, with clear reflections of the brown reeds, a species of 
Arundo, ten or twelve feet high. The lake may be about eight 
miles long from east to west, and two miles across. A thick 
belt of reeds seems almost to divide it from north to south. 
According to the map the east end is marshy. Where we were 
it had a rocky edge. 
Ducks were numerous and remarkably tame. There were 
Tufted (dthyia fuligula) and Pochards (4. ferina) in equal 
numbers, as well as several pairs of Shovelers (Spatula clypeata) 
in magnificent plumage. Teal (Nettion crecca) were shyer and 
took to flight, but dropped again in sight. 
A Pygmy Cormorant (Phalacrocorax pygmeus) was drying 
itself on the bank, and flew across several times. It looks 
quite black as it flies, and the longish tail makes its flight not 
ungraceful. I am not sure whether another and larger Phala- 
crocorax that I saw was a Shag or a Cormorant. 
