Ornithology of Asia Minor. 23 
137. Montifringilla nivalis (L.) 
It is with some hesitation that this bird is included in tne 
present list, it having only been identified with the binocular. 
Still there is every probability that the birds which we met 
with on the summit of the Anascha Mountains really were 
Snow-Finches, as the species has been recorded by Canon 
Tristram as inhabiting Mount Hermon and the Lebanon*. 
138. Ligurinus chloris (L.). 
Generally distributed in the mountains, and also met witi^ 
in the interior. 
139. Linota cannabina (L.). 
Common in spring at Anascha. 
140. Carduelis spinus (L.). 
Generally distributed in the Taurus, but not numerous. 
141. Carduelis elegans, Steph. 
Generally common, but especially abundant in winter. 
142. Serinus hortulanus (Koch). 
This species was not observed during winter or in the 
interior, but was common in the early spring among the pine- 
woods. 
143. Serinus pusillus (Pall.). 
Very common, but also very local. The following account 
of it has already appeared in the ^ Birds of Europe ^ f :— 
^‘^The Kaisariyeh road diverges from the main track to 
Eregli at Bozanti khan, and, after crossing the river by a ford, 
leads up the northern side of the Ala dagh through a district 
at first well-wooded with fir, which soon becomes interspersed 
with bushes and juniper trees. The common Serin Finch had 
been constantly observed in other parts of the mountains, 
and still continued common; but it was here that the first 
specimen of S. pusillus was shot, from a small flock by the 
wayside. They were rather shy, and time did not admit of 
their being then followed up; so a long tramp from our halting- 
^ Ibis, 1868, p. 208. t ‘ Birds of Europe,’ pts. Iv., Ivi. 
