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83. CoRvus coRONE, Liim. 



84. CoRvus coRNix, Linn. 



The Carrion- Crow Avas abundant in the Lower Pyrenees, 

 and in the Val d'Aspc I saw it in considerable flocks. The 

 Hooded Crow was tolerably common about St. Jean-de-Luz 

 in winter; one individual was nearly black, with a dark-grey 

 collar ; another, on the same tree, was a very light example. 

 I also saw the species in Navarre. 



85. CoRVUS FRUGiLEGUs, Linn. 



The Rook w^as plentiful in winter on the French side. In 

 Navarre, where comparatively little rain had fallen for fifteen 

 months, the soil was too hard for it in the spring of 1882. 



86. CoRVus coRAx, Linn. 



The Raven is generally distributed, and its hoarse guttural 

 bark was a familiar sound on my excursions. One morning 

 a man was engaged just outside St. Jean-de-Luz in burying 

 a horse which had died in the night, and a pair of Ravens 

 were circling round, expressing their sentiments in the 

 plainest manner upon such a waste of good food. 



87. Dendrocopus major, Linn. 



The Great Spotted Woodpecker was twice observed in the 

 Basque Provinces. 



The Black Woodpecker {Picus mar tins) undoubtedly in- 

 habits the Pyrenees and the Cantabrian range, but I had 

 not the good fortune to meet with it. 



88. Gecinus viRiDis (Linn.), 



The Green Woodpecker is common ; nowhere more so than 

 at Pan. 



89. Iynx torqujlla, Linn. 



The Wryneck was very noisy on the 26th of March in the 

 chestnut-woods outside Argeles. 



90. Alcedo ispida, Linn. 



The Kingfisher was frequently seen along the rivers and 

 mountain-streams. 



