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and black-throated wheatears (S. a'uanthe and S. stapaztHii), 

 which appear to have just arrived. Saw a male grey harrier 

 (sp. ?), only two or three quails, evidently birds that 

 have passed the winter here. Found several Gougylus 

 ocellatus under stones in the wheat fields, also a large 

 centipede. A peasant brought ofF a dormouse {^Myoxu5\ 

 the same as the Spanish species, but too much damaged to 

 be worth keeping. Another fine specimen of Z. atrovirens 

 brought in the evening." 



'■''April i2th. Sunday. Drove out in the afternoon 

 to the convent and Tornia degli Capucini. Immense 

 extent of quarried rock, with a great variety of wild plants 

 and ferns. 



'^ April lyh. Many bats brought off", chiefly R. 

 ferrum eq, some V. schreiberi, two or three R. hihastatus, 

 and one that I am not sure about, but think is V. 

 rnegapodius. Round the bay we saw many kestrels (chiefly, 

 I think, the lesser kestrel,* F. cenchris), some Alpine 

 and common swifts, a hoopoe, two stone curlews, great 

 flights of yellow wagtails, a small flock of stilts, a large 

 flock of some diving duck, which looked like tufted,t 

 but were too far off" to make out. Shot a common 

 whitethroat." 



* This little falcon, much smaller than our Kestrel {F. tinnunculus), 

 is very abundant in summer in Andalucia. Very many may be seen 

 flying about the cathedral in Seville. 



t The Tufted Duck {Fuligula cristaia). 



