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1921 .] Birds of Macedonia. 
Passer hispaniolensis. Spanish Sparrow. 
Seen occasionally with other Sparrows, but apparently 
very local in distribution. Several could usually be found 
in Elisan. 
Petronia petronia. Rock-Sparrow. 
1 have only one record and that concerns a pair breeding 
at Orljak. I found a nest with young in a high bank. The 
nest was in a hole about fifteen feet from the ground, and 
there is but little doubt that the hole was found ready made. 
The behaviour of the female and the loud wheezy chirruping 
of the young made the detection of this nest inevitable by 
every person who passed by. Otherwise it would have been 
difficult to locate on account of the many similar but 
unoccupied holes in the same bank. Whenever I approached 
both parents were somewhere near the hole. The male 
would fly off to a wire fence about 15 yards away and remain 
watching. It would call incessantly using a double note, but 
nevertheless this parent would not excite itself unduly. The 
female, however, would hopelessly betray the nest. It 
would remain at the hole till the last moment in a very 
agitated state. It would also return to the brood at the 
earliest possible moment, and more often than not fly straight 
into the hole. 
Emberiza calandra. Corn-Bunting. 
Very common. Abundant in winter, and twittering 
little flocks were seen everywhere. The gregarious habits 
continued well into March, but when I went along the Orljak- 
Kopriva road on the 14th of April they seemed to have settled 
down a bit. At Karamatli they nest side by side with the 
Shrikes and E. melanocephala . Nests were also plentiful at 
Grramatna, at which place I found eggs up to the end of 
June. Young birds at the beginning of July. A favourite 
site for the nest was in a low bramble-bush growing near 
the headland of a poor wheat or barley crop. In February 
mixed flocks of Corn-Buntings and Goldfinches were 
seen. 
