69S Captain P. W. Munn on the [Ibis, 



111. Otus scops. Scops Owl. 



Not uncoininon. Its monotonous piping note nuiy be 

 heard at night in most parts of: the district, and indeed in 

 most parts of the island, even throughout the winter. I 

 have frequently flushed them from ttie shelter of some tree 

 or ruined building, and found one that had been killed by a 

 cat outside the walls of Alciidia. 



Included in v. Jordans' list. 



112. Carine noctua. Little Owl. 



I have never seen this species, but have heard its cry in 

 the neighbourhood of Puerto Alcudia, where one individual 

 took up its quarters during the autumn of 192U. 



Included in v. Jordans' list. 



113. Vultur monachus. Black Vulture. 



The Black Vulture is numerous and resident in all the 

 mountainous parts of Majorca, and it is a mystery how these 

 great birds find sufficient food ; no doubt they do not live 

 entirely on carrion — sickly sheep or young lambs are not 

 allowed to die natural deaths in the hills where these vultures 

 are numerous. I know of one instance at the Cabo de 

 Menorca when five vultures were driven away from a dying 

 laml) by some fishermen, who secured the lamb and took it 

 home. Two pairs and an odd bird of this species inhabited 

 the hills around the Atalaya de Alcudia, and were seen 

 almost daily going round their regular beats over the 

 hillsides, tlie Albufera and marshes, and the pine-woods on 

 the shore. A favourite perch was the ruined watch-tower 

 on the summit of the highest peak. On 14 January, 1920, 

 I watched one of these pairs mating; and at the end of 

 March both pairs had taken up their nesting- quarters in the 

 crags, one pair having selected a cavern in a precipice im- 

 mediately above the Cabo del Pinar, and the other pair a ledge 

 in the sheer rock directly beneath the Atalaya — about a mile 

 and a half apart. The odd bird — a young one — had dis- 

 appeared. On the: Polleusa peninsula they are particularly 

 numerous — perhaps the numbers of feral goats there attract 

 them ; and one day I saw no less than twelve overhead there. 



