674 Captain P. W. Munn 07i the [Ibis, 



narrow ridge of mountains, rising to 1300 feet at Fomentor 

 and cuhniiiating in tlie cape of that name. 



Cultivated country in this district only extends around tlie 

 towns of Alcudia and Follensa, behind the Albuferete, on 

 the slopes of the lower hills of the peninsulas, and also 

 on the northern and western fringes of the Albufera. 



In the cultivated country there is a network of narrow 

 lanes shut in with stone walls, and many of these lanes are 

 most picturesque. 



The district thoroughly worked and explored is that to the 

 east, and seawards, of a line from Pollensa to La Puebla, 

 thence to Santa Margarita, and on to the neighbourhood of 

 Arta. The observations, I think, may be considered fairly 

 applicable to the greater part of the island, with the excep- 

 tion, perhaps, of the mountainous region of the north ; but 

 I found that the results in the mountains were so very 

 meagre compared with the arduous work necessary to accom- 

 plish them, that I doubt if it is worth while exploring this 

 northern range thoroughly. 



There is a great deal of migration in the island, and 

 during November and April especially there were streams 

 of common migrants. 



In the neighbourhood of Palma, numbers of birds are 

 killed and sold in the market for food during the winter. 

 Besides Game-birds^ I saw there Thrushes, liedvvings, Bhick- 

 birds, Starlings, Linnets, Serins, Siskins, Goklfinches, Green- 

 finches, Chaffinches, Pobins ; and fewer Fieldfares, Ring- 

 Ouzels, Redstarts, Blackstarts, White Wagtails, Meadow- 

 Pi[)its, and even Sardinian Warblers, Goldcrests, Chitifchaffs, 

 and Blackcaps. 



The birds, as a rule, sing little and feebly, the Sardinian 

 Warbler and Nightingale being the most noisy, though the 

 Blackbird in the spring chimes in. 



I have described rather fully the nests and eggs of some 

 of the birds, as it appears that little collecting of the eggs 

 of Majorcan birds has hitherto been done. 



The inhabitants are very friendly and courteous, but do 

 not take much interest in the doings of the foreigner among 



