C)9n (^iiptuin P. W. Munii on the [Ibis, 



100. Micropus melba. Alpine Swift. 



I saw several of this species in the company of common 

 Swifts, flying over the Albufera on I April, 1920, and they 

 ap})eared to be making for tlie mountains in the north of the 

 island. 



Observed by v. Jordans. 



101. Micropus muriims illyricus. Mouse-coloured Swift. 

 Obtained by v. Jordans and Witherby. Probably breeds; 



but among the hundreds of AI. apus seen at Palma and in 

 other places I have not yet observed this species. 



102. Caprimulgus europaeus. Nightjar. 



A summer visitor, arriving at the beginning of May, but 

 not very common. Whilst standing on the balcony of the 

 inn at Puerto Alcudia in the evening of 11 May, 1921, one 

 of these birds swept close past mo up the village quay. I 

 flushed a pair in the woods near San Luis on 13 May, 1021, 

 and a single bird in the pine-woods on the shore on 21 ^lay, 

 1921. One was caught in some fishing-nets, in the summer 

 of 1920, hung up to dry in Puerto Alcudia; the species has 

 also been noticed near Palma. 



Included in v. Jordans' list on Barcelo's authority, and 

 from a stuffed specimen seen in Arta. 



103. Merops apiaster. Bee-eater. 



To anyone acquainted with the summer birds of Spain, the 

 merry Bee-eaters are the most noticeable absentees from 

 Majorca. I have only seen one party, which was migrating 

 northwards, on 26 April, 1920, above the pine-woods near 

 the shore of Alcudia Bay. I have looked for them in vain 

 in other parts of the island, but have seen no others, so con- 

 clude they do not stay in Majorca and are only stragglers 

 on migration. 



Von Jordans obtained a specimen that had been shot near 

 Arta in 1912, and quotes Homeyer and Barcelo as authorities 

 for its occurrence. 



