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Mr. C. G. Danford on the 
78. Oriolus galbula, L. Sari asma (Yellow vine). 
A few specimens were seen about the gardens of the in¬ 
terior. The native name refers to the golden colour of dead 
vine-leaves. 
79. Pycnonotus XANTHOPYGius (Elir.). 
Flocks of this bird were observed in the wooded moun¬ 
tains near Gozna December 11th; a week later they had 
disappeared. 
80. RuTICILLA PHtENICURUS (L.). 
Not uncommon in gardens and wooden mountain districts 
throughout the country. 
81. Ruticilla mesoleuca^ Ehr. 
Only obtained in the Taurus_, where it is commoner than 
the preceding, but more local. The following note on this 
little-known species has already appeared in Mr. Dresser^s 
work*. 
The river Sihoun (Sarus), after leaving the gorge of Anas- 
cha, flows rapidly down a straight narrow valley, whose high 
mountain-sides are in some places huge walls of purple-grey 
and orange rock, and in others are clothed with the varying 
greens of oak, fir, spruce, and cedar. Some four miles along 
this valley, through willows [Salixpurpurea), tamarisks {Ta- 
marix smyrnensis), and thickets set with great whitethorns, 
bring one to the summer village of Kara Pongar (black 
spring). It is a sorry collection of a dozen huts placed on a 
grassy slope near the spring, which bursts in large volume from 
a dark ivy-hung rock, and winds down to the river through a 
most beautiful wood of plane and other trees. The ground 
here was a perfect carpet of violets and primroses, with ane¬ 
mones of every shade between deep purple and pure white. 
Further on the scenery becomes very wild, the deciduous trees 
cease, the rocks rise in jagged peaks, and the river tumbles 
away down impassable ravines. 
This plane-grove is the haunt of both White-winged and 
Common Redstarts, the former being rather the more nume¬ 
rous. It is certainly much the shyer bird, perches high, drops 
* Birds of Europe, pt. liv. 
