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THE IBIS. 



ELEVENTH SERIES. 



Vol. III. No. 4. OCTOBER 1921. 



XXXI. — Bird Notes from Southern Spain. 

 By J. H. Stenhouse. 



The following notes have been compiled from observations 

 made in southern Spain between December 1918 and July 

 1920, while the writer was serving at the Royal Naval 

 Hospital, Gibraltar. Anyone using that fortress as a daily 

 base for ornithological work in Spain finds it very difficult 

 to get any distance into the country, and for that reason no 

 attempt was made to cover a great amount of ground, but 

 efforts were confined to working a small district as thoroughly 

 as possible. Most of these observations, therefore, were 

 made around Algeciras and in the neighbourhood of the 

 Sierra Carbonera (Queen of Spain's Chair) ; but the local 

 enforcement at Algeciras in 1920 of a Spanish law prohibit- 

 ing the firing of a gun between March 1st and August 1st, 

 hampered work near there so much, that, whenever possible, 

 attention was given instead to Almoraima C;ork Woods, 

 16 miles to the north. On three occasions, throuoh the 

 kindness of my old friend Colonel Verner, visits of a few 



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