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as the species found in the surrounding woods were few and 
far between. These woods mostly resemble the coverts in 
the hilly parts of Devonshire. Oak trees, ivy-bound and 
clematis-hung, form the staple growth, Mixed with these 
are a good many evergreens and an undergrowth of thorn 
and bramble, which creeps and twists about a debris of bluish 
grey limestone patched with rich green moss. Higher up 
are tall spruces and junipers (Juniperus drupacea, Labill.). 
The fruit of the latter species is abundant and very orna¬ 
mental, almost as large as a walnut, and covered with a pale 
blue bloom, like a ripe plum. 
These woods are doubtless in summer well stocked with 
birds. In winter they are principally inhabited by Wood¬ 
peckers ( Gecinus viridis, Picus medius, P. lilfordi , P. minor), 
Nuthatches ( Sitta caesia, S. krueperi), and Tits (Parus major, 
P. lugubris, P. caeruleus, P. ater, and Acredula tephronota ). 
The last-named species, and also the Gold- and Fire-crested 
Wrens, were very common in a wood of mixed beech and oak 
to the east of Gozna. This wood was further remarkable as 
being of a singularly weird appearance, the rocks and the 
lichens upon them, the branches and stems of the trees, and 
the long beard-like mosses which hung from them, being 
all of an almost unvarying tint of pale grey. 
During our stay at Gozna there was plenty of hard frost 
and several heavy falls of snow, and it was with great diffi¬ 
culty that horse-owners were induced to go further up into 
the hills. However, the chief of a small village near by did 
at last get together the necessary men and animals, and we 
left for Zebil on January 3rd. The distance to that village 
is, as the Crow flies, short; but the snow which lay on the 
upper levels, and the crossing of the deep valleys of Der- 
men deresi (mill valley) and Pambouk deresi (cotton valley), 
made the tramp rather a long one. Flocks of Hawfinches, 
Goldfinches, Skylarks, and Pipits were met with on the way; 
and numbers of Fieldfares and a couple of Eagle Owls were 
seen in a great forest of firs, through which the path led by 
a descent of 2400 feet to the bottom of the Pambouk deresi, 
along which flows the western branch of the Cydnus. The 
