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that the island was visited in the winter months by both 

 E-ed-legged and Grey Partridges, neither of which species 

 remained to breed thereon, that the scrub was infested by 

 Wild Cats, that there was no spring of water, that he and his 

 family were entirely dependent upon the clouds for their 

 supply, and that the lessees of the shooting had turned down 

 some Pheasants. 



The only birds seen by our party on Gianutri, and not 

 previously mentioned in this paper, were the Hoopoe, Common 

 Redstart, Black-headed Warbler, Cuckoo, and Turtle Dove ; 

 the men of our crew found a few nests and eggs of Larus 

 cachinnans ; my son shot a very fine female of the small 

 Peregrine, of which birds we observed a pair haunting the 

 lower cliffs of the northern side of the island, where no doubt 

 they had a nest. The lighthouse-keeper talked of some fine 

 sea-caves on the western side of the island, but declared that 

 no Rock Doves frequented them, and as the heavy swell 

 which rolled in from the southward would have entirely pre- 

 vented any exploration in a boat, we did not attempt to 

 verify these reports, and on the evening of April 25th ran 

 off and anchored off the little port of Giglio, on the eastern 

 side of the island of that name. This port is only accessible 

 for very light craft, and we rolled horribly all through the 

 night, and at daybreak ran across to Porto San Stefauo, an 

 excellent anchorage on the northern side of Mount Argen- 

 taro, with a town well supplied with all necessaries. It 

 rained in torrents all the morning, but cleared in the after- 

 noon, and we went off in our steam-launch to see if we could 

 find any passage into Lake Orbitello, a large sheet of water 

 lying between the town of that name and the promontory of 

 Argentaro. A passage exists, but we found it barred with 

 mullet-traps, so after coasting for a short distance along tlie 

 sandy flat which separates the lake from the sea, we went 

 about and ran as far as the heavy sea Avould permit past our 

 anchorage and under the cliffs of Mount Argentaro. We saw 

 no birds with the exception of a Falcon, a few Sandwich Terns, 

 and many Shearwaters of the two species. We remained 

 at our anchorage the following day, as the weather was very 



