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wigeon and a few mallard and teal. About 4.30 p.m. 



1 rejoined us and said that he had found very few 



snipes, but had seen swarms of geese and various duck 

 fowl. On our way back, we shot some wigeon crippled 

 by the shore gunner, and also some small waders. Our 

 bag consisted of one goose, caught alive, one wigeon, 

 one teal, three peewits, five snipes, one little stint, and 

 some twenty ringed plover, Kentish plover, and dunlins." 



" Fresh birds seen : Totatius hypohuais, Viiltur monachus, Chara- 

 drius pluvialis, j^gialitis cantiana, Scolopax gallinago, Linota catifiabina, 

 Tringa minuta. 



" Reported by I : Hirundo riparia, Anas c/ypeata, Pterocles 



alckata." 



^^ February i^ih. Most beautiful day. I and 1 



sallied with la gente about 9 a.m., and had several 

 attempts at the bustards, but entirely without success, 

 and we came home absolutely empty-handed. We 

 noticed in a flock of geese, one very considerably smaller 

 than her companions, possibly the little white-fronted 

 goose {^Anser erythropus'), which has occurred in these 

 parts. Vicente reports having seen hoopoes {Upupa epops) 

 a day or two ago. We saw a good number of bustards 

 and, I think, more geese than we had seen before, 

 swarms of wigeon and a ^qw black-bellied sand grouse. 

 The vultures decline to come to our dead horse." 



" Fresh birds seen : FaLo peregrinus, CEdicnemus crepitans" 



" February i dth. Another beautiful, bright day, but 

 a coldish wind. I and I went away down the river. 



