64 Ornithological Notes from Constantinople * 
line on the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus, between Haider 
Pacha and Ismidt. Mr. William Pearse, of Haskeui, who is 
engaged in obtaining specimens to supplement the series, told 
us that he received the skin of the bird when quite fresh, and 
that it was shot in company with a flock of the common 
Boiler ( C . garrula). The Indian Boiler is already known to 
occur on the Persian Gulf. Sclater has examined specimens 
obtained at Bunder Abbas by Doria in 1862, now in the Civic 
Museum of Genoa; and Mr. Blanford, we believe, likewise met 
with it in Southern Persia; so that its occasional occurrence 
in Asia Minor is not very surprising. Halcyon smyrnensis has, 
we know, a somewhat similar range. 
Buticilla mesoleuca (Hempr. & Ehr.) (?). 
The collection contains a stuffed specimen of a Bedstart 
closely resembling the ordinary R. phcenicurus , but having 
less white on the forehead, and a conspicuous white wing- 
patch, formed by a narrow external white edging to the inner 
primaries and the secondaries. It would seem to belong to the 
form called mesoleuca by Hemprich and Ehrenberg, of which 
Messrs. Blanford and Dresser have given us an account in 
their excellent article on Hemprich and Ehrenberg's types 
(Ibis, 1874, p. 343). Mr. Pearse informs us that the bird 
was captured by bird-lime near Haskeui, in the autumn of 
1874. 
A skin of the same form, or nearly so, obtained by Dr. 
Kriiper near Smyrna, is in Taylor’s collection. Whether this 
bird is fairly separable from R. phcenicurus is perhaps doubt¬ 
ful ; but whatever view may be taken of it, the form certainly 
occurs occasionally within European limits. 
Terekia cinerea (Guld.); Degland & Gerbe, Orn. Eur. ii. 
p. 171. 
Although this Wader is a well-known inhabitant of Eastern 
Europe, we are not aware that its occurrence in Turkey has 
been recorded. Mr William Pearse, of Haskeui, shot a pair 
of these birds near the Sweet Waters last summer, which are 
now in the Bebek collection. The species would appear to 
