Mr. W. H. Simpson’s Fortnight in the Dobrudscha. 361 
Ornith. Madag. p. 40. Malacirops borbonica, Bonap. Notes s. 1. 
Coll. Del. p. 56; Reichenb. fig. 3290. Figuier de VIsle de France , 
Buff. (Motacilla mauritiana, Gra. ?). Z. cinerea, Swains. ? 
Found in Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands. A speci¬ 
men received from Goudot in the Paris collection is a little more 
brownish; perhaps a female. 
c. Speirops. 
11. Z. lugubris, Haiti. 
Supra olivacea, pileo nigricante, uropygio viridi-flavescente; 
fasciola inter rictum et oculum annuloque periophthalmico, 
hoc minus conspicue, albis; subalaribus et flexura alse pure 
albis; gutture pallide cinerascente; pectore et abdomine 
dilute brunnescenti-olivaceis; rostro brunneo; pedibus 
carneis; iride nigra. 
Long. 5" 2"'; rostr. afr. 4j"; al.2"8i'"; caud. 2"; tars. 8f'. 
Syn. Zosterops lugubris, Hartl. Rev. Zool. 1848, p. 108; Id. 
Beitr. z. Orn. Westafr. p. 49; Id. xlbhandl. Naturw. Ver. Hamb. 
ii. p. 49, t. 2. fig. med.; Id. Syst. Orn. Westafr. p. 72. Speirops 
lugubris, Reichenb. Merop. p. 93, fig. 3306. 
Confined to the Island of St. Thomas. We have examined 
two specimens (Hamb. Mus.). 
Less typical. The largest Zosteropine species of Africa. 
XLI.— A Fortnight in the Dobrudscha. 
By W. H. Simpson, M.A., F.Z.S. 
The Austrian steamer from Constantinople to Galatz being 
caught in a gale of wind off Varna, on Sunday, April 15, 1860, 
was obliged to run for shelter behind the point of Kali Akra, 
the eastern horn of Baltschik Bay, where she lay for thirty-six 
hours, secure from the furious nor’-easter, which drove the scud 
at hurricane speed just over the 300 feet cliffs that protected us 
from its fury. This is the first view which the traveller from 
the south has of the coast of the Dobrudscha, and if he has pre¬ 
viously indulged in the popular error that that region is a low- 
lying swamp, he will here have an opportunity for correcting his 
geography. But unless he wishes to find himself alone in the 
midst of a somewhat lawless Turkish population, he will hardly 
care to land here in order to improve his ornithology, though 
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