1 92 1.] Birds of Alcudia, Majorca. 703 



136. Pandion haliaetus. Osprey. 



Two or three pairs are resident in the district, one pair 

 nesting on the clitfs on the southern face of the Cabo del 

 Pinar and another pair on the cliffs of the Alciidia peninsula 

 on Pollensa Bay. 1 have seen as many as five fishing on the 

 lagoons near Puerto Alcudia at the same time, and a pair or 

 more were daily on these higoons or on the Bay near the 

 Port, either fishing or perched on the [josts in the higoons or 

 on the sandbanks in the Bay, near the flocks of gulls th're. 

 At the end of Api'il the birds carried their prey away to the 

 cliffs of the peninsula, where probably they had young ones. 

 This species is found pretty generally all round the coast of 

 the island. 



Obtained by v. Jordans. 



137. Phalacrocorax carbo. (Cormorant. 



Resident, nesting on the cliffs of the Cabo de Menorca 

 and round to the Cabo del Pinar. During the winter a 

 large flock fished daily in the lagoon behind the pine-woods 

 inland from Alcudia Bay, and then returned every night to 

 roost at a certain spot on the crags and among the stunted 

 pines on the cliffs of the southern face of the Cabo del Pinar, 

 sharing their roosting-place with an equal number of Herons ; 

 and when I visited this place in Januaiy 1920 about a 

 hundred of each species w ere there — some of the Herons fast 

 asleep on the crags and in the caverns of the cliff, and many 

 of the Cormorants too lazy to fly away. Both species nest 

 at this spot — the Cormorants on the cliffs, and the Herons 

 either on the cliffs or in the pine-trees. When the harbour 

 of Alcudia is quiet, in bad weather or on feast-days. Cor- 

 morants come right into the harbour and are sometimes 

 caught in the nets. 



Qbtained by v. Jordans. 



138. Phalacrocorax graculus desmarestii. Shag, 



Not very plentiful. Two or three pairs nest together at 

 various spots scattered along the same cliffs as those in which 

 the Cormorants breed, and they roost in the winter at their 

 nesting-places. None are ever seen in the lagoons, but 



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