236 MEDITERRANEAN NOTES 



" A few swallows [Hirundo rustica) came on board. 

 Peck reported a quail flying past the vessel. A harrier 

 (^Circus cineraceus, I think) was nearly blown foul of us 

 off Razzoli. Saw no other birds except kestrel, one shag, 

 gulls, shearwaters, and two terns. One old native seems 

 to recognise my description of Audouin's gull." 



Maddalena 



'■'■May 2nd. Received a note from the man who keeps 

 the cafe, and with whom I had a talk yesterday, that he 

 had found an individual who knew the places for various- 

 birds and the soundings, so we fetched off this Trojan, 

 an old shipwright, and went away in steam launch to 

 some small rocky islands in the channel which divides- 

 Maddalena from Caprera, in front and rather to the 

 north-west of Garibaldi's house. We did not do much» 

 but the day came out fine and hot, and it was very 

 enjoyable. We held away round the south-west end of 

 Caprera to a small island which they call Porco, but found 

 next to nothing. Came back through the channel between 

 San Stefano and the mainland of Sardinia ; called at 

 Parao, Sapari, and elsewhere. Heaps of charcoal and a 

 fine spring of water." 



" Birds seen and heard : Falco peregrinus, Nisaetus boncUi, 

 Pandion haiiaetiis, Cori'iis corax, Merops apiaster, Sylvia mehino- 

 cephala, Troglodytes parvulus, Columha livia, Caccalns petrosa, Larus' 

 kucophaus, Phalacrocorax graculus, Sterna fluviatilis. Our old Trojan 

 seemed to know Audouin's gull by my description, and called it 

 ' Cirulia." " 



