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homes of a very considerable number of migratory birds. 

 The date of onr visit was too late for witnessing the move- 

 ments of the numerous Passerine and other small birds, but 

 the shores of the lagoons and etangs down to our last day 

 in the Delta — the 31st of May — formed the tarrying- 

 grounds of considerable flocks of migratory waders. No 

 doubt several species must necessarily have escaped our 

 notice, but those observed were the Golden Plover, Grey 

 Plover, Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Little Stint, Curlew Sand- 

 piper, Knot, Sanderling, Redshank, Spotted Redshank, 

 Greenshank, Bar-tailed Godwit, and Whimbrel. In addition 

 to these a Red-backed Shrike and two Ospreys were also 

 noted as migrants. 



In connection with the subject of the migration of birds 

 in the Camargue, it may be remarked that there are two 

 lighthouses on the shores of the Mediterranean within the 

 Delta. If observations on the movements of migrants could 

 be obtained from these most advantageously situated watch- 

 towers, it is probable that the value of the data afforded would 

 be equal in importance and interest to those furnished by any 

 other European station. M. Rey, of the Garde Maritime, 

 who showed us extreme kindness during our visit to his 

 lonely station on the shores of the Golfe de Beauduc, 

 informed us that in April " thousands upon thousands " of 

 small birds arrive there, and that his small garden is crowded 

 with them for several days. Tliat extremely rare visitors 

 not unfrequeutly find their way down the Rhone Valley is 

 manifest from specimens to be found in the fine collection of 

 the birds of Provence in the Marseilles Museum. Here we 

 noted local examples of such interesting strangers as Turdus 

 dubius, T. obscurus, T. naumanni, T. atrigularis, Calliope 

 camtschatkensis, Emberiza aureola, E. rustica, Certhilauda 

 desertorum, C. duponti, Melanocorypha yeltoniensis, Merops 

 (Egyptius, Surniafunerea, Milvus govmda,Elanus melanopterus, 

 Ardea atricollis, Tringa platyrhyncha, and Vanellus gregarius. 

 Other species worthy of notice as having occurred in Southern 

 Europe were Pinicola enucleator, Calcarius lappon'icus, Picus 

 levconotvs &c. This collection is well worth a visit, and 



