686 Captain P. W. Muiin on the [Ibis, 



47. Lanius senator. Woodchat. 

 Von Jordans obtained specimens. 



48. Lanius senator Ijadius. Corsican AVoodchat. 



A common and couspicuoiTS summer visitor, whose extra- 

 ordinary variety of notes is most confusing to tlie naturalist. 

 The earliest arrival was noticed on 30 March, 1921, but one 

 of their " larders " was found on 1 April, 1920 — several 

 beetles and other insects impaled on the thorns of a pome- 

 granate bush on the edge of the Albufera. The first nest 

 was taken on 26 April, 1920, and these were invariably 

 built among the ends of the lower branches of snuill pine- 

 trees. Two nests I found in a row of scattered pine-trees 

 near the shore were not 100 yards apart. There is little 

 attempt at concealment, and the bird sits closely. The 

 nests are bulky, strongly-made structures, com[)osed exter- 

 nally of pieces of an aromatic plant with the yellow blossoms 

 attached, and lined with grass, cotton-grass blossoms, a few 

 feathers, and odds and ends of paper, fibre, etc. Five hand- 

 some evenly-marked eggs are usually laid, of a pale greyish- 

 white ground-colour zoned with lirown, and grey blotches 

 and spots of varying shades at the larger end. I onh^ 

 noticed this species on the low ground ; it did not ajipeai- to 

 frequent the hills. 



Obtained by v. Jordans. 



49. Lanius meridionalis. Southern Great Grey Shrike. 

 Von Jordans includes this in his list on the strength of a 



specimen in the Institute Balear in Palma. 



50. Sylvia communis. Whitethroat. 



A summer visitor, arriving in A})rii, but not common. 

 Obtained by v. Jordans. 



51. Sylvia currnca Lesser Whitethroat. 



Gosse observed a specimen at Alcudia on 7 April, 1914. 



52. Sylvia simplex. Garden- Warbler. 



A summer visitor, but not common. I saw the first on 

 19 March, 1920. 



Not observed by v. Jordans, who quotes Homey er. 



