1 92 1.] Birds of Alcnd'ia, Majorca. 713 



two pairs nesting in a sandy ravine which divides the pine- 

 woods on the furilier shores of Aleudia Bay. One pair 

 apparently liad vonng, but I found a nest of tlie other pair 

 with four eggs, nearly ready to hatch, laid on the sand in a 

 scrape, with a few small pieces of coral and shells, on the 

 top of a hillock among scanty, scrnbhy herbage. On visiting 

 this spot again on 21 May, I I'ound a similar nest wifh four 

 eggs, evidently belonging to the same pair of birds. The 

 eggs from both these nests were finely pointed and of a light 

 greyish colour, covered with small dark spots, but, after 

 blowing, the ground-colour changed io lig?it buff. The 

 behaviour of the birds at their nest is totally different from 

 Kentish Plovers, which are not demonstrative whilst they 

 have eggs; but the Little Ringed Plover flies wildly round 

 and round, twisting and doubling and uttering its wild 

 whistle, or else runs frantically about on the ground, wdiist- 

 ling plaintively. With a larger series of Little liinged 

 Plovers' eggs from Majorca, I shall be able to show that 

 these eggs often closely resemble some examples of the 

 Kentish Plover, as I have shown that many of the Kentish 

 Plovers' eggs closely assimilate to those of the Little Ringed 

 Plover. The eggs of the three Little Ringed Plovers taken 

 on 16 March were of a totally dift'erent'type from those taken 

 on 4 and 21 May. 



Included in v. Jordans' list on Homeyer's authority, who 

 writes of it as beino- the rarest Plover. 



202. Vanellus vanellus. Lapwing. 



Large flocks inhabit the Albufera and neighbourhood 

 during the winter, Ijut all leave the district in the beginning 

 of March. Smaller quantities are found in the Albuferete 

 in the same season. 



Included in v. Jordans' list. 



203. Haematopus ostralegus. Oystercatcher. 



A small party frequented the sand-banks in Aleudia Bay 

 from 11 April, 1920, and were still in the district on 3 May, 

 but later I did not observe them. 



Included in v. Jordans' list. 



