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45. Passer domesticus (Linu.). 



The House-Sparrow was in evidence at the village of 

 Arrens (2800 feet). We saw it nowhere else. 



46. Fringilla ccelebs, Linn. 



The Chaffinch is one of the commonest — perhaps the com- 

 monest — bird of the Pyrenees. I noticed it among the beech- 

 forests at Eaux-Bonnes and Bareges and in the pine-woods 

 of the Valle de Ara. Throughout these mountains it uses 

 certain very distinct call-notes which I never heard in 

 England. On June 3rd I found a nest ready for eggs in one 

 of the lateral glens (about 4000 feet) above St. Sauveur. 



47. Ltnota cannabina (Linn.). 



Only at Eaux-Bonnes was I sure of the Linnet; there 

 upon the furzy hillside to the north of the hamlet we found 

 its nest and hard-set eggs on May 27th. In the Eaux- 

 Bonnes collection are a pair of small dull-coloured Linnets 

 (without names^ dates^ or localities), having faint yellow 

 rumps, but otherwise resembling Twites. 



Li the same collection are Bramblings in winter-plumage. 



48. Pyrrhula europ^a, Vieill. 



At Eaux-Bonnes and Argeles-Vieuzac we saw the Bull- 

 finch. At St. Sauveur, where three fourths of the hotels 

 had not opened by June 1st, and things were consequently 

 quiet, the Bullfinches were hunting the Escallonia-hushes set 

 in their tubs on the side-walk before the salle-a-manr/er, a 

 diversion more suited to the London Sparrow than to this 

 wary bird. 



49. Emberiza MILIARIA, Linn. 



The Corn-Bunting was seen around Argeles-Vieuzac, 

 1525 feet. 



50. Emberiza citrinella, Linn. 



The Yellow-Hammer takes the place of the Sparrow as 

 street-scavenger at Eaux-Bonnes. Whether the Sparrow 

 comes up with the crowd when the season opens I cannot 

 say, but until the end of May E. citrinella and the Chaffinch 

 had no competitors. We saw this species throughout the 



