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at nightfall. Saw a good many mallards and garganeys 

 and some marsh birds, I think rufFs and black-tailed 

 godwits." 



"March 18//;. Heavy rain. It was rather better 

 in the afternoon, and T. went ashore with the captain, 

 and shot two black-bellied sand grouse. They went 

 again after dinner, and took one alive, with light and 

 bell. T. had a shot at bustard, without result." 



Gibraltar 



^"^ March lyrd. T. walked up to the signal station 



afterwards with M and saw Bonelli's eagle on 



her nest. 



" Went down to see Mr. V at the Waterport 



guard ; he is much vexed at this new prohibitory law 

 about shooting in Spain. He goes out to-morrow to 

 look after a Bonelli's * nest in some crags near Castellar. 

 He tells me that the ospreys are already sitting at the 

 east side of the rock." 



" March 2^th. Have heard Scops owls these last few 

 days about the rock." 



" March 2<)th. It is remarkable that amongst hundreds 

 of gulls at the slaughter place at the back of the rock 



* Bonelli's Eagle {Nisaetus fasciatus) is with the Booted Eagle 

 {JVtsaefKS pennatus) representative in Europe of a small group of 

 long-legged eagles. They are neat-looking and active birds; the 

 former nesting on ledges of rock, the latter in cork and pine-trees 

 in Morocco and Andalucia. 



