On Birds in South Russia. 
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1921 .] 
Coturnix coturnix. The Quail. 
From the fact that these birds occasionally winter in the 
south of England, it might be thought that some would pass 
the winter in Alderney; bnt this does not appear to be the 
case, and Langlois can only recall one instance of the Quail 
being seen there during the winter months, and this was one 
he shot in November many years ago. All the breeding- 
birds leave the island early, and mostly before the opening 
of the shooting-season. 
XXIY .—Notes on Birds in South Russia. 
By Lieut. J. N. Kennedy, M.C., B.A., F.R.G.S., M.B.O.U. 
During my recent service with the British Military Mission 
in southern Russia, I made occasional notes on birds, and I 
have now put them together in this paper, more in the hope 
that they may prove of use to future observers in these 
regions, than in the belief that they contain any original 
observations of value. 
After an extended tour through central and south Russia 
during the autumn and early winter of 1919, I found 
myself at Novorossisk, a little seaport near the northern 
extremity of the Caucasus range. Our activities had been 
much limited by the retreat and disorganisation of Denikin's 
Army, and at Novorossisk we were awaiting for some two 
months the inevitable order to embark with the remains of 
the forces. It was during this period that I found leisure 
to make a small collection of bird-skins, and to compile the 
notes which form the first section of this article. 
In the Crimea, after a short period of re-organisation of 
the White Army, now commanded by General Wrangel, we 
were involved once more, during the spring and summer 
of 1920, in active operations, and I was unable to make any 
systematic ornithological observations. I have therefore 
contented myself, in the second section, with a few general 
remarks on the Crimea, in which I include some suggestions 
given to me by Lieutenant Y. Martino, of the Russian Army, 
