MEDITERRANEAN NOTES 193 



'■'■January \'^th. Went off in cutter to north side of 

 bay, landed near Cangas ; very pretty, but, in the way of 

 shoot, quite unproductive country ; shores fringed with 

 reefs of rock. 



" Saw great northern diver, sparrow-hawk. Vast flights 

 of wigeon going out seaward, and two or three adult 

 gannets in the bay." 



Lisbon 



*' January i\th. Went ashore about noon and up to 

 see the Natural History Museum. Made acquaintance 

 with Barboza du Bocage, who was most civil and did the 

 honours of the collection. There are many interesting 

 things, but the birds are dreadfully badly stuffed. Many 

 comparatively common Spanish birds seem to be absent 

 from, or rare in Portugal — e.g.^ Passer salicicolus, Capri- 

 mulgus rujicollis. Bocage showed me a specimen, a 

 very bad one, of the blackcap from the Azores, with a 

 black hood, apparently very distinct from the common 

 form, and a new triton, lately discovered in Portugal. 

 The cream of the collection are the birds from the 

 Portuguese African possessions." 



" January i^th. I never noticed gulls so tame as 

 here, chiefly L. ridibundus, with a few L. fuscus, L. argen- 

 latus, or L. leucophi£us!' 



'■'■January I'&th. Very fine bright morning. We 

 waited for a pilot, who was engaged to come on board at 



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