Geographical Range of the Flamingo. 571 



A Fact on the last Individual of the Wolf hilled in Scotland. — 

 In a catalogue of Mr. Donovan's sale of the London Museum 

 by Mr. King, April 1818, one article is (in p. 53. lot 832.), a 

 " Wolf, a noble animal, in a large glazed case. The last wolf 

 killed in Scotland, by Sir E. Cameron." — J. C. Dale. Glan- 

 ville's Wootton, Dorsetshire, April 20. 1835. 



Birds. — On the geographical Range of the Flamingo {Phceni- 

 copterus ruber L.) [VI. 285, 384.]. — I beg to inform your cor- 

 respondent H. B., who has mentioned, in VI. 285, 286., as 

 something extraordinary, seeing a string of flamingoes carried 

 to market at Cadiz, and has requested to know whether these 

 birds were ever seen alive in Spain, that they are met with in 

 various parts of that interesting country. They are tolerably 

 abundant, during the winter season, on the Alfaques, a strip 

 of sands running down to the sea-shore, between Catalonia 

 and Valencia. They arrive from Africa towards the end of 

 October, and depart again in March. They have been shot 

 on the banks of the Ebro, two leagues above Amposta ; and 

 Mr. Bridgeman showed me, in his collection at Tarragona, 

 an individual which was killed on the sea-shore, only a mile 

 from that town. They are also found during the brumal 

 months, on that magnificent retreat for the aquatic feathered 

 tribes, the Albufuera, about a league from Valencia ; as well 

 as on the extensive piece of water, called by the same name, 

 near Alcudia, in the richly cultivated and truly lovely island 

 of Majorca * I also beg to state, that the flamingo breeds in 

 the marshes in Andalusia, on the authority of Don Jose 

 Naudo of Reus, in Catalonia, who assured me he had fre- 

 quently taken the nest, which he stated to be irregularly built 

 of rough materials, to be raised considerably above the surface 

 of the ground, forming a prominent object in the distance, and 

 to contain two or three white- coloured eggs of an oblong shape. 

 In the museum at Meudon, a small hamlet, between Bagneres 

 de Bigorre and the beautiful pastoral valley of Campau, in 

 the Hautes Pyrenees, I saw also a pair, shot, as I was in- 

 formed, in the vicinity. These must, of course, have been 

 individuals on passage. The curator of the museum at Nismes, 

 moreover, informed me that the specimens in his collection 

 were procured near that town : he also asserted that the fla- 



* The water in the Majorcese Albufuera is very brackish, though sepa- 

 rated from the sea by a shingle bank, through the pebbles of which the 

 salt water must percolate. An enormous species of eel, as thick as a man's 

 arm, forming, when cooked, a most delicious dish, is caught in great num- 

 bers in this lake, as I presume I may term it. Notwithstanding the extreme 

 brackishness of the water in the Albufuera, a variety of fresh-water fish are 

 found in it. 



