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lizards, and bats. We took a boat up the Anapo river 

 to the fountain of Cyane in the afternoon. Fine snipe 

 marshes, but very little in them now. The papyrus 

 flourishes all along the upper part of the river, which is 

 a narrow, insignificant stream, swarming with mullet. The 

 fountain of Cyane is the head-spring, a beautiful deep 

 blue, clear pool. More arrivals of animals in the evening." 



" The collecting expeditions brought in three species of bat, 

 Rhinoloplms bihastatus, and, I lielieve, R. euryale, possibly R. divosus 

 and Vespertilio kuhli ; some Pyrgita pctronia alive, two or three 

 species of snakes, Cohiber ?!aMx, and Zamenis atrovirens, and several 

 species of lizards, one I believe Lacerta rmiraUs viridis (?) and another 

 a Gecko, and Gougylus oceHatus, besides a great variety of beetles, 

 centipedes, frogs, woodlice, etc., etc." 



"April e^th. The steward brought in a specimen of Vesp. schreibcri 

 from the Greek tombs. 



Magpies nesting in papyrus on banks of Anapo. 



Villani brought off five rock-sparrows {Pyrgita petronia), alive, two 

 of which soon died, also various reptiles." 



" April 6th. A man came with some hundred bats^ 

 caught in a cave to the southward, almost all Rhinolcfhus 

 euryale I think, perhaps some R. divosus, five or six Vesp. 

 schreiberi, and one Vesp. murinus. Out at the Saline I 

 shot one snipe and one little kestrel (Falco cenchris). Saw 

 the western black-throated wheatear (Saxicola stapaziiia)* a 

 few ducks, herons, a spotted crake, and some species of 



• The wheatears {Saxicola) belong to the thrush family, allying 

 the thrushes with the chats. The Common \ATieatear {S. amifii/ie) of 

 our downlands nests in rabbit holes or in stone walls. The Black- 

 throated Wheatear {S. siapazina), a South European species, has very 

 rarely visited us. 



