34 Mr. Henry Seebolim on the 



75. Pelican. {Pelecanus onucrotalus.) 



One shot on the 1st of June, 1883 : a regular visitant in 

 May, when several were seen. A skin was sent to Mr. 

 Hume. 



76. Cormorant. [Phalacrocorax, sp. inc.) 



A brown Cormorant seen in numbers on a detached rock 

 below the lighthouse at Marshag. 



V. — Notes on the Birds of the Upper Engadine. 

 By Henry Seebohm. 



It is a long climb from the plains of Lombardy to the valley 

 of the Upper Engadine. Lake Como is a little more than a 

 thousand feet above the level of the sea ; a further climb of 

 rather more than fifteen hundred feet brings the traveller to 

 Promontoguo, and a long two thousand feet more lands him 

 at Casaccia, but there is still more than one thousand feet 

 of zigzags before the top of the Maloja Pass is reached. The 

 new Maloja Hotel is perhaps the finest in Switzerland ; it is 

 nearly six thousand feet above the level of the sea, and forms 

 a centre of unusual interest. From a geographical point of 

 view it may be regarded as on the water-parting between the 

 Italian and Austrian river-systems (the one leading through 

 the Valley of the Po to the Adriatic, and the other through 

 that of the Danube to the Black Sea), whilst it is less 

 than six miles from the valley of the Rhine, and only about 

 sixty miles from the source of the Rhone. To the geologist 

 the scarped and scored rocks on the Kulm (the culminating 

 point of the pass) and the heaps of gravel and the piles of 

 granite boulders point out the course of the ancient glacier, 

 now shrunk back a thousand feet up the Forno valley, with 

 little but its moraines to tell the tale of its former greatness. 

 The artist may find views, too grand for transference to paper 

 or canvas, by ascending any of the smaller spurs of the 

 mountains, whence he can look down a couple of thousand 

 feet towards Italy, or by passing along the chain of lakes to 

 St. INIorilz, or by climbing up the icy peak of the Pitz Bernina, 



