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Pintail. 

 Tufted Buck. 



Wigeon. 

 Wild Geese. 



Wood-Pigeon. 



Bourgas. 

 Bourgas, 



Philipopolis. 



Sofia, Lower Maritza, Black Sea ; 

 all the winter. The White- 

 fronted was the only species 

 recognised near Bourgas. 



Left Sofia in November, returned 

 to Palace Gardens March 15-16. 



March 22. 

 November 



to March. 

 March. 

 March 22. 



Raven. 



Hooded-Crow. 

 Jackdaw. 



Mngpie. 

 Common Jay. 



Nutcracker. 



Greenfinch. 



Bullfinch. 



Tree-Sparrow. 



House- Sparrow 



Goldfinch. 

 Chaffinch. 

 Meadow-Bunting. 

 Yellow Hammer. 

 Common Bunting. 

 Reed- Bunting (sp. 



inc.). 

 Girl-Bunting". 



(III.) Residents. 



Quite common : frequents the outskirts of Sofia. 



Abundant : frequents towns. 



Sofia and other towns : extraordinarily abundant, 

 flies and calls long after dark, and begins again 

 before daylight all through the winter. Very 

 white about the sides of the neck. 



Universally distributed. 



Extraordinarily abundant : as many as a hundred 

 being seen in one small oak-wood. (Twenty 

 mobbing an Owl.) 



Reported to me by a trustworthy friend, who saw 

 it in the Balkans. 



Rare. 



In pairs : not often seen. 



Common in considerable flocks. A much hand- 

 somer bird than our form, the head being 

 not chocolate, but a rich ruddy chestnut. 



Abundant : differs slightly from the British 

 form, the male having, in many cases, scarcely 

 a trace of chestnut on the head, and being not 

 easy to distinguish from the female when seen 

 from behind. A much duller bird. 



General and abundant. 



Abundant : universally distributed. 



Iskar Gorge. 



Abundant : always present around Sofia and 



other towns. 

 Bourgas. 



At Kustendil in the w r est and Bourgas in the 

 east ; common. 



