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Imperial Eagle. 



Golden Eagle. 

 Peregrine. 



Wild Swan (sp. inc.). 



Pelican (sp. inc.). 

 Cormorant. 



White Egret. 



Night-Heron. 



Heron. 



Peewit. 



Moorhen. 



Mediterranean Black- 

 headed Gull. 



Yellow-legged 

 Herring-Gull. 



Dabchick. 



Great Crested Grebe. 

 Diver (sp. inc.). 

 Ringed Turtle. 

 Stock-Dove. 



Grey Partridge. 



Common and generally distributed : visits Sofia, 

 flies over city and public gardens. Nests in 

 low pear-trees and in elms, in open country 

 quite close to the railway-line and villages, 

 and may be seen on its nest from passing trains. 

 A mean bird, sits with Hoodies upon the 

 ground. Has a deep cry. 



Sofia : once seen, regarded as rare. 



Bourgas : well-identified once. 



Seen in the distance on the Danube. (The 

 W hooper is known). 



Seen in the distance on the Danube. 



Abundant on the lower Maritza above Mustafa 

 Pacha, i. e. a hundred miles and more from its 

 mouth. 



Bourgas. 

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Universal: common. 



In flocks about the grass-country as in England. 

 Seen from the train in Servia : not observed or 



heard in Bulgaria. 

 Bourgas. 



Bourgas : abundant, almost a pest. 



Bourgas. 

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A pair on the Black Sea off" Bourgas. 

 Abundant in all towns throughout the winter. 

 Abundant, to the exclusion of other forms, on the 



upper Maritza. 

 Phodopes. 



Mr. Witherby stated that at the June meeting, on the 

 completion of the 21st Session of the Club, it had been 

 decided to present to Dr. P. L. Sclater the address (which 

 had been circulated) engrossed on vellum with the signatures 

 of the members in facsimile, the whole bound in album 

 form. It was proposed that the silver token should be in 

 the shape of an Ibis standing on a Globe, and a sketch of 

 the design was passed round and approved of by those 

 present. 



