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XXXVI. — Notes on the Birds of Alcudia, Majorca. 

 By Captain P. W. Munn, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



(Plate VIII.) 



The following notes were made during a stay in Majorca, 

 Balearic Islands, from November 1919 until May 1920, and 

 from October 1920 until June 1921. 



I chose as my headquarters the Port of Alcudia, a tiny 

 fishing village and port, a mile and a half from the town of 

 that name. Here there was a clean and comfoitable little 

 hostel — the " Hotel Marina." Other parts of the island were 

 also visited as well as Minorca. 



Puerto Alcudia (see map, PL VIII.) is possibly the most 

 likely spot in Majorca for birds — the shores of the beautiful 

 bay, the pine-woods, the Albufera and marshes, and the 

 crags and cliff's on the peninsula, being apparently ideal 

 localities, and the ever-present quantity of water in the 

 marshes and streams adjacent, besides a lesser area of 

 cultivated land than in other parts, make it more attractive. 



The island is, however, a somewhat disappointing place for 

 an ornithologist : there are, certainly, a good many birds, 

 especially on migration, but comparatively few of any great 

 interest, in addition they are unusually wild and shy. Also 

 the strenuous work of climbing the rocky hills, when day 

 after day nothing new or of interest is seen, takes a lot of 

 time with but meagre results. The sandy shores and sand- 

 banks of the bay are ideal for shore- and sea-birds ; but of 

 the former only the Kentish Plover is common, of the latter. 

 Gulls are few, and of Terns there are none. The pine-woods 

 and the crags and caverns in the hills are most suitable for 

 birds of prey, but few are present ; the cliffs on the sea-coast 

 should teem with sea-bird life, but they are comparatively 

 barren. 



The Bay of Alcudia is fringed, most of the way round next 

 the sandy shore, with a belt of sand-dunes of varying width, 

 overgrown with beautiful woods of pine, of no great size as 



