61 G Captain P. W. Munn on the [Ibis, 



species that he did not himself observe he has added on the 

 authority of earlier writers. 



Dr. Philip Gosse visited the islands in April 191 4 and 

 Mr. H. F. Witherby in June and July 1919, and to 

 both these gentlemen I am indebted for much useful 

 information. 



The Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain has kindly furnished me with 

 notes on many of the eggs I have collected. 



To my own observations I have added those species 

 that I have not myself observed, with the references to the 

 above earlier writers, but have preferred to omit any state- 

 ments made by them which at the present time might be 

 misleading. 



Minorca is a still more disappointing island for &,n ornitho- 

 logist. There is at Port Mahon an interesting museum in 

 the Literary and Scientific Institute, with a collection of 

 birds said to have been obtained in the islands, and catalogued 

 by Senor Ponseti. About five miles from Port Mahon is a 

 series of lakes, called the Albufera, among low scrub-covered 

 hills near the sea, which is the most likely spot for birds 

 that I saWj and where there were, at the end of March 1920, 

 large flocks of Coots, some Mallards, and a few pairs of 

 Tufted Duck. In the centre of the island, between Mei'cadel 

 and Ferrarias, the hills are higher and more wooded and the 

 country more inviting-looking. Blue Rock-Thrushes were 

 plentiful and said to be resident ; Puffimis luliJi and 

 P. yelkouaii * nest on many parts of the coast of the island 

 as well as on the adjacent islets. 



From the position of the islands, midway between the 

 coasts of southern Europe and northern Africa, there is 

 every probability that other species besides those already 

 recorded may Ije observed on passage ; and the recesses of 

 the Albufera and other marshes, and the remoter parts 

 of the mountains in Majorca, may yield, perhaps, a few 

 more species during the nesting-season. 



* Probably ruffinus i). vmuretanicus Lowe, Bull. B. O. C. xli. 1921, 

 p. 140. 



