MEDITERRANEAN NOTES 167 



The only birds I saw and heard out in the country were, 

 common bunting, swift, swallow, yellow wagtail, fantail warbler 

 {Sylvia cisticola). Steward bought a fine white-backed rock-thrush 

 {M. saxatilis) in the market. 1 saw nothing therein in the evening 

 but quails, hoopoe, turtle-dove, common bunting, short-toed lark, 

 and thick-knee. 



" Wright's principal treasures are a very fine specimen of the 

 Eleonora falcon {Falco ekonora:), in, I should say, third year's 

 plumage, very perfect and bright in colouring, a good specimen 

 of Bartram's sandpiper and of the white-winged plover, also a fine 

 Saxko/a leucocephala, killed not long ago. He has a few reptiles, 

 amongst others, a curious, dark variety of Lacerta muralis, found 

 in Filfola ; of this he gave me a specimen, as also a young snake, 

 which he says is Coluber leopardinus, but I think it must be 

 Z. hippocrepis. It seems that C. leopardinus and Zamenis atrovirens 

 are the only two snakes of Malta. He gave me a bat, I think 

 V. kuhii, but am by no means sure. V. murinus appears to be 

 common. Wright gave me two good specimens of little stint." 



" Birds heard of, observed, and obtained from market at Valetta 

 from April 17th to May 7th, 1874. 



Falco vespcrtinus. Monticola atruapilla. 



F. cenchris. Petrocincla saxatilis. 



Circus (Bruginosus. Ruticilla titys. 



C. pallidus. Saxicola stopazina. 



Sirix flammea. Sylvia cinerea. 



Scops gilt. S. curruca. 



Cuculus canorus. S. melanocephala. 



Merops apiaster. Phyllopneuste sibilatrix. 



Caprimulgus europceus. Budytes flavus. 



Cypselus apus. Alotacilla alba. 



Clielidon urbica. Calandrtlla brachydactyla 



Hirundo rustica. Emberiza miliaria. 



Muscicapa collaris. Passer salicicolus. 



Turtur auritus. Oriolus galbula. 



Ortygia coturnix. Coracias garrulus. 



