MEDITERRANEAN NOTES 229 



marble with white veins, whilst there are patches of 

 bright green and brilliant yellow sandstone in some spots. 



" The absence of sea birds is very remarkable. We 

 only saw four gulls and two shags. The ravens have 

 a nest in what appears to be a tolerably accessible 

 spot on the eastern side of the promontory mentioned. 

 When I shot the first two rock doves, several of 

 their feathers floating in the air were caught and carried 

 off by the crag martins which are very numerous. 



" The doctor reports two pair of partridges {CaccaUs 

 rufa)y 



" Birds seen : Neophron pennopterus, Fako tinnunculus, Falco 

 (sp. ?), Corvus corax, Cottle rupestris, Monticola cyaiiits, Chelidon urhica, 

 Columba livia, Larus kiicophaus, Phalacrocorax graculus." 



'■'■April 21st. Another lovely day. The doctor landed 

 with gun and Zulu at the head of the bay on east side, 

 and T. and I went away in the cutter round the east 

 side of our promontory. We saw few pigeons ; they were 

 very wild, and we did not bag one. We attempted a 

 siege of the ravens' nest, but the cliff was so friable that 

 it was a service of danger, and we had to abandon it. 

 The yacht came round to us. We saw a common tern 

 (Sterna fluviatilis). Steered off to the eastward ; coast 

 full of iron, worked in many places. We went away in 

 cutter again to the south-east: splendid cliffs full of caves, 

 but we only saw two pigeons far out of shot ; saw a 

 peregrine falcon, no gulls, no shags, no seals. Came 



