226 MEDITERRANEAN NOTES 



" Jpril -jth. An old fellow in a sort of coracle shot 

 into a flock of black-headed gulls, and bagged two of 

 them, which he brought on board alive. He informed 

 me that he shot from la passione. Great shoals of 

 small fishes playing round the vessel after dark." 



Leghorn 



'■'■April \^th. VYe beat into Leghorn and anchored 

 in the outer harbour. Three United States men 



of war moored at the mole. We got leave to go into 

 the inner harbour, and found the R. Y. S. s.s. Golden 

 Eagle there. Went ashore and drove about the town 

 — clean, wide streets and large squares, but rather a 

 melancholy place. Many gulls in outer harbour." 



'■''April \^t/i. I took train for Pisa at 10.42 a.m. 

 The line runs through the forest of Tombolo, a very 

 gamey-looking locality with pines, oaks, ilex, and thick 

 under-covert of brambles, thorn, heather, fern, with great 

 stretches of fine-looking snipe ground in the open spots. 

 Saw a troop of camels, but nothing in the way of birds, 

 except kestrel, magpie, skylark, crested lark, fantail 

 warbler, and common heron. Arrived at Pisa at 11.9 

 a.m. and went straight to the Natural History Museum, 

 which is chiefly rich in fossils and minerals ; they have 

 a good great auk (Alca impennis), and apparently a fair 

 collection of local birds, but they are not kept apart from 

 the others, and some are without labels, others placed so 



