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Observations discussed in the present Paper terminated On the Shores of Alexandria. With reserenoe to the resulis of the expedition gained in Africa, Ι refer the re ader to another Paper of mine The ornithological Resulis of the Zoological Expedition to Egypt of the Ηungarian Natural History Museum, Ania.
even is curtailed to a mere enumeration Os data.
the Pelagic occurrence of the Blackhea ded Guli ; the migrations of the Medi terranean Guli, the Sand victi Tern ; the Europe an occurrerice of the Laughing
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the Levantine Manx Shearwater may be found in masses of severat thousandAin the Dardanelles and the Bosporus, but there are Only a few of them in tho Black Sea and the Sea Os Marmora. Their numbers will rapidIy decrease on the Egean Sea fouth of the Dardanesses, and on the Black Sea noriti of the Bosporus
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so that the solithemmost solitary bird was found at the istand Si mi, and tho
distribution, range, and number of Specimens. it differs considerably Dom the Levantine Manx Shear vater. Ι observed the firSt two specimens at the entrunce of the Dardanelles from the Egean Seu on 24 August. From there On to Alexandria, I sighted 38 birds in rather uniform dispersion : Of these, 4 were sight edon the Syrian, and 3 On the Africari, Shoros ; the other 31 specimens having been observed DOm the Dardanelles to Cos. It was the most De quent around
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Cap Baba north of Mytilini on 3 December. The passage data Dom the Egean
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specimens Observed in the territory of Africa . Concerning the OccurrenoeS Onthe Danube, Ono can, On the basis of the observations ora 15 - 19 August, estah Iish the faci that, with the exception os three cases, their distribution was rath runiform, and that Only one to three hirds were Seen together. I noted the
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one of them on the Black Sea, the Other One belween Cyprus and Syria. Thisrather det alled enumeration Os Occurrence data was destrable for the very good
re ason that we have hiat scanty information On the late si Immer move ments of the specieS.
then, ne ar the molith of the river, there Was a flock of 300 specimens. I didit Ot Observe it On the sea, Dom the mouth of the Danube to Alexandria. Onour Voyage back, Ι counted 144 specimens in the pori of Alexandria on 28, 29Νovember. There Here 200 specimens at Bityuk Dere On the BosΡOrus, and 300 in the entrance of the Strait to the Black Sea. Ι observed it Once Only onthe Open sea, Sighting a single bird On the latitude of Burgas on the Blaok Soaon 8 December. FinaliV, there were 15 Specimens in the ΡOrt Os Constantabetween ' and 12 December. It is to be Seen DOm the ab ove occurrence data that the migration of the Black-headed Guli commences but at a Iate period, so that the sirst flocks reacti the shores of Africa only at the end of November ; with a distinet gathering in the Bosporus. Finalty, with View of the faci that the birds Ahun the openseas, the observation On 8 December iS Of extraordinary interest. Mediterranean Guil Larus meIanocephaIus ΤΕΜΜ.3 - During Our Voyageto and Do m Africa, I observed it Only in the Bosporus, with the exception Oftwo cases : Ι sighted an adult and two juvenile specimens near the Aliores of Asia Minor on the northern part of the Ego an Seu on 24 August, and three adulis in the Bay of Igmir on 25 August. There were 140 hirds at the BlackSea entrance of the Bosporus On 20 August, and 20 specimens at the entrance of the Strait to the Sea os Marmora on 4 December. I also saw T hir Is in the
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number of them on 4 December, When I saw a flock of about 1000 specimens and another one of some 200 birds whirling at abo ut 200 m high over the waternear the village Bityiik Dere in the Bosporus. Os the ab ove data, the lalterone is especialty intereSting aS it Seem S to indicate that the species Will notscalter in Amali flocks Only in the Mediterranean for Winter, hut that One mayspeak of even iis distinct Passage in large flocks, commencing with the settingiti of the early winter COId S.
mens On the Danube, DOm the mouth Of the Drave to the molith of the Danube
Sighting a specimen at GOmbOS On 15 AuguSt, and another One at the branch-ing of the St. George and the Stilina arms in the Delta on 19 August. Turile Dove StreptopeIia t. turtur L.) - Ι 8aw 4 specimens ne ar themo tith of the Drave on 15 August, and T Other ones at Vidin on 16 August.
I observed a specimen ori the ground in an Oid street ne ar the wali of the Ayasosya in Ista bul, and another One On a tree in a Street with rather heavy
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Nightjar Caprimu us europaeus Asp.) - Λ juvenile specimen boardedour Ship at sighting distance of the Syrian Ahores between Cyprus and Syria ori 28 August. The early migration datum and the youth of the hird would indicate that it belonged to the sub species meridionalis HART., but I cannot
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interesting datum concerning iis range in Africa . Nam ely, I have observeda Specimen, clOSely and for a long time, on the shore Of the Easterii Harhouros Alexandria oti 5 September. Iis Occurrerice in Egypt waS ΠOt yet ShOWn.