584 Mr. J. H. Stenhoiise : [Ibis, 



young were seen leaving the nest on 11 April. The nests were 

 chiefly in small low furze bushes and very difficult to find ; 

 they were also placed in heather. The wings of six males 

 ranged from 48 to 51 mm„, of three females 48 to 50. The 

 only evidence of migration obtained was the presence of one 

 low down, close to the sea at Gibraltar, along with other 

 migrants on 3 March ; the wind had been strong easterly for 

 two days. 



Favier records it as a migrant at Tangier, Hartert (Vog. 

 pal. Fauna, p. 601) gives, on Jourdain's authority, the eggs of 

 this southern Spanish bird as distinctly smaller than those 

 of S. u. dartfordiensis, thus confirming the bird's smaller size. 



[These are quite typical of the north African form. How 

 far north it extends has yet to be decided, but certainly 

 Portuguese birds north of the Tagus are not of this 

 subspecies. — H. F. W.] 



Agrobates g. galactotes. 1 r? • 



Summer visitor, nesting not uncommonly in the prickly 

 pear gardens. First seen 9 May. A pair were noticed on 

 17 August feeding young just able to fly. The only record 

 of their departure was on 18 September, when one was 

 seen at the lighthouse. This was the only occasion on which 

 a bird was identified in the beams. It came up wind with 

 its tail spread out, rendering recognition easy, swerved at 

 the last moment and struck the dark tower above the lantern 

 hard, knocking out a cloud of feathers ; unfortunately it 

 could not be found afterwards. Nestlings examined Avere 

 black-skinned with no down, inside the mouth orange-yellow ; 

 ■ flanges white ; no tongue spots. 



Locustella n. nsevia. IS, ^'^ 



Twice obtained on autumn migration. First on 14 Sep- 

 tember on the banks of the stream behind Algeciras : the 

 second among dry palmetto scrub on 12 October. 



Cettia cetti. 



Seen and heard close to Algeciras on the banks of Rio de 

 Miel, but no specimen obtained. 



