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12. Erithacus rubecula (Linn.). 



I found the Robin nesting at Argeles-Vieuzac and met with 

 it at Eaux-Bonnes. In the wildest forests of the Valle de 

 Ara its cheery little song reminded one of home ; but the bird 

 has not, in the Pyrenees, the friendly habits of the English 

 resident species ; it rather shuns human neighbourhood, as 

 one finds it doing in the Bernese Oberland, and resigns to 

 the Black Redstart the place of pensioner and house-mate. 



13. Daulias luscinia (Linn.). 



Nightingales were in full song in the gardens of Argeles- 

 Vieuzac on ^lay 29th. We did not hear them among the 

 mountains nor on the Spanish side until we reached Torla, 

 a little town several miles south of the frontier. 



14. Sylvia rufa, Bodd. 



I met with the Whitethroat at Argeles-Vieuzac on May 

 28th. 



15. Sylvia atricapilla (Linn.). 



The Blackcap was singing at Eaux-Bonnes in the last week 

 of May, and we heard and saw it daily among the box-bushes 

 on the Spanish side in June. 



16. Sylvia salicaria (Linn.). 



Garden Warblers were singing at Argeles-Vieuzac. I 

 could not feel sure of either ChifFchaff or Willow Warbler in 

 the Pyrenees. Some lively little birds were abundant in the 

 Valle de Ara which puzzled me by constantly commencing 

 with the cry of the one species and tailing off into the song 

 of the other. 



Some other birds, the Chaffinch for example, have Spanish 

 notes very different from their usual English call. 



17. Regulus ignicapillus (C. L. Brehm). 



On May 26th I found Firecrests feeding young at Eaux- 

 Bonnes ; the nest seemed similar to a Goldcrest^s, and was 

 hung in a conifer close above a public lamp beside the main 

 road. Firecrests were nowhere common. The Goldcrest 

 1 did not see, nor was there a skin in the Eaux-Bonnes 

 collection. 



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