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Desert Lark (Ammomanes sp.) — I record this bird with 

 much hesitation, as neither A. desertl nor A. cinctura seem to 

 have been recorded from the neighbourhood of the Dardanelles. 

 But, comparing the description I took down at the time with 

 specimens of Ammomanes, I am quite clear in my own mind that 

 it was this bird that I saw several times on sandy ground 

 sparsely covered with shrub near the West Krithia Eoad on 

 May 8fch. It was very conspicuous, singing and hovering at 

 no great height. I noticed that the primaries and tail were 

 considerably darker than the rest of the plumage, but whether 

 it was A. deserti or A. cinctura I cannot say : both species have 

 a wide range in North Africa and Asia. 



Eaven (Corvus corax). — Very common on Imbros in Septem- 

 ber. A few at Suvla in October. 



Swift (Cypselus apus). — Thirty or forty passed up the Gully 

 (i. e. north-east) on June 1st ; one on June 24th, and on 

 August 9th. 



Greater Spotted Woodpecker (Dryobates major). — The 

 specimen that I saw in some tall elms in the middle of our 

 ground at Helles on May 2nd and 18th was certainly this 

 species, and not D. lilfordi. 



Common Bee-eater (Merops apiaster). — A pair on the West 

 Krithia Koad on May 15th and 18th. 



Hoopoe (Upupa epops). — Like Captain Boyd, I did not see 

 this bird till August, in the Gully. I saw it again at Suvla in 

 August, and on the hills of Imbros in September. 



Great Spotted Cuckoo {Coccystes glandarius). — A pair on the 

 West Krithia Boad on May 8th and May 24th. 



Bed-legged Falcon (Falco vespertinus). — A pair quarrelling 

 with a family of Kestrels in a Turkey oak on Suvla Plain in 

 September. 



Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo). — Mudros, April. One seen 

 in the mouth of the Dardanelles during the landing on April 25th. 



Turtle-Dove (Turtur communis). — On May 5th I saw a flock 

 of twenty or thirty roosting together, but they must have paired 

 soon afterwards. On July 15th I found a nest in a small 

 thorn-bush, four feet up, containing a newly-hatched bird, dead. 

 Another dead one was found the same day, just fledged. 



Common Crane {Grus communis) ? — Large flocks of what I 



