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Mr. J. H. Gurney on the 



booked in my N. H. Journal, which the next day was gone 

 from the place after a brief halt of three or four hours only, 

 while after a short time others of the same kind appeared, to 

 fill its room. The authors of ' Les Richesses Ornithologiques 

 du Midi de la France^ knew this habit, when, speaking of 

 the spring-migration, they said : " L'apres-midi a souvent 

 vu disparaitre tout ce que les premieres heures de la matiuee 

 nous avaient amene.^' 



In 1900 the passage may be said to have been entirely 



Fig. 31. 



l.de Porquerelles 



Carnarat Lighthouse V 



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 Department of the Var. 



over by the 9th of May ; not a bird was to be seen after- 

 wards where there had been so many before, except a pair 

 mated and settled for the summer at rare intervals. The 

 bond fide travellers had passed on, and I remember that the 

 same change from plenty to scarcity struck me forcibly in 

 Algeria at just about the same date (Ibis, 1871, pp. 68, 289). 

 Migration is very similar in the two countries, except that 

 birds are more numerous in Algeria. 



As regards migratory water-birds, there is one important 

 feature in which the shores of Provence — that is east of the 



