Letters, Extracts from Correspondence, Notices, fyc. 115 
“ 3. Malherbe (Orn. Sic.) gives a copy of L. Benoit, but 
adds as a locality ‘ Cyprus/ 
“ Negative authorities. 
“ 1. Not found in the Cyclades (Erhardt, Wirbelthiere der 
Cyclades). 
“ 2. Not found in Algeria (Loche). 
“ 3. Not in Greece (Miihle). 
“ 4. Not in Corsica (Malherbe). 
“ 5. Not in Sardinia (Gaetano Cara, Orn. di Sardegna). 
“ 6. Not found in Russia (Nordmann, Voyage de Demidoff, 
1840). But the same authority adds, f It does occur on the S. 
and S.W. coasts of the Black Sea, in European Turkey, and in 
Asia Minor/ ” 
M. E. Verreaux writes :—“ My brother Juleses opinion agrees 
with mine, that Francolinus vulgaris has become extinct in Europe, 
and that the specimens scattered about in commerce at this time, 
and sold as European, come from India, and are of a distinct 
species, viz. F. asice, Bp. Formerly, there can be no doubt that 
the true F. vulgaris was found in Sicily, Greece, and Turkey; 
but I am not aware that a single specimen has been brought 
from these localities for more than thirty years.” 
Lord Lilford seems to deny that Cyprus and the Grecian 
Archipelago are European localities. I think, however, we must 
retain the Mediterranean islands, at all events, in the Ornis of 
Europe, whatever geographers may say to the contrary. 
Sicily is quite, and Sardinia nearly, as near to Africa as Cyprus 
is to Asia; and how are we to divide the Archipelago ? 
Prince Charles Bonaparte, though he considered the Cyprian 
Francolin distinct from the Sicilian species, having described it as 
F. tristriatus from three bands of white on the side of the head, 
nevertheless admitted it as a European species both in his 
4 Tableau parallelique de FOrdre des Gallinaces ; and in his 
Catalogue, published in 1856, with the additional localities of 
Crete and Candia. 
The bird which I have figured is, however, the Francolinus 
vulgaris, Stephens, and was obtained by Mr. Tristram in Cyprus. 
The wide-spread circulation of ‘ The Ibis 9 on the Continent 
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