368 Mr. H. Saunders on the 



promptitude with which the Carlist invaders were placed in 

 that condition which, according to Cromwell_, " hath no 

 fellow ! " In the greater part of Spain there is no difficulty 

 whatever about a gun, but just on the frontier it is different. 

 And to have given my proper address at St. Jean-de-Luz 

 would at any time have insured the' attention of the autho- 

 rities, for that place was the hot-bed of Carlist plots and 

 the watch-point of the faction. 



So much for my own experiences, whicli are merely set 

 down in order that my readers may know how far I have 

 been, and whence my sources of information are derived. 

 But to supplement my defective knowledge of the French side, 

 there is a work entitled ' Catalogue raisonne des Oiseaux ob- 

 serves dans les Pyrenees frangaises et les regions iimitrophes,^ 

 by M. Adrien Lacroix, of Toulouse, whose acquaintance I 

 had the pleasure of making a few years ago, when I was 

 enabled to inspect his collection of specimens obtained in the 

 Pyrenees and the neighbourhood. At his residence, in the 

 sunny plains of Gascony, M. Lacroix has collected informa- 

 tion respecting the birds obtained or observed in the Depart- 

 ments of Haute-Garonne, Aude, Ariege, Gers, Ilerault, 

 Haute-Pyrenees, Tarn, Tarn-et-Garonne, and Pyrenees-Ori- 

 entales, the result being a list of about 350 species, many 

 of them of considerable interest. M. liacroix has made 

 various excursions into the mountains, and can by no means 

 be considered a mere cabinet naturalist ; but still there are 

 some points upon which it would be satisfactory to have 

 corroborative details. It is not my intention to swell the 

 list by making a complete catalogue of the sj^ecies which are, 

 or ought to be^ found in the Pyrenees ; therefore, with the 

 exception of a few rarities, such as Pallas's Sand-Grouse, 

 only those are set down which I have myself seen alive 

 or recently killed, and many species are excluded which 

 undoubtedly occur, but which I do not find noted in my 

 memoranda. 



1. TuiiDUs viscivoRUs, Linn. 



The Missel-Thrush is common and resident. I observed 



