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calandra. Many pairs were put up and two nests were found 

 after much search, both with four eggs. They were placed under 

 the fronds of a spiny herbaceous plant which the cattle would 

 not touch. This large species has a rather unlark-like appearance 

 on the wing, being of a rather brownish colour and with a short 

 tail. It utters a peculiar warble on the wing, and when disturbed, 

 several pairs fly round in the air over the intruder somewhat after 

 the manner of some of the waders. 



We heard the Cuckoo, Citculus canorus, on the way back and 

 also saw a couple of Marsh Harriers, Circus cBVUginosus harterli (?) 

 some White Storks, two or three Spanish Magpies, Pica pica 

 melanota, and many Kestrels, Cerchneis tinnunculits tinnuncidus. 



The following day, 6th April, we spent in Seville, but M 



went out and got a pair of White Stork's eggs from a nest on the 

 top of a small pine, about 25 feet high, to the west of Coria. This 

 nest was found by McNeile on the 3rd, and it then contained one egg. 



On the 7th, we packed some food and bedding on our horses 

 and started out early for the Cotos and the famous IMarismas. 

 We rode all the morning through scattered pine woods and open 

 sand hills covered with stunted gorse and other vegetation, with 

 here and there a lone pine tree. Dartford Warblers, Sylvia imdata 

 undata, were fairly common here and in a tiny gorse bush we found 

 a nest of this species with one egg. Continuing into the pine 

 woods two single Red Kites, Milvns milvns milvus, were seen 

 sailing overhead. They are easily distinguished from the Black 

 Kite by the deeper forked and brighter red tail as well as by the 

 large whitish patch on the under side of the wing. The Red Kite 

 in flight is certainly worth more than a day's ride to see and possibly 

 it was of greater interest to us because of its marked scarcity 

 as compared with the ever present Black Kite. We observed 

 many nests of the latter species, some apparently nearly completed. 

 Working on through the larger timber after the luncheon halt, 

 we were for a time unsuccessful. We all three spread out well 

 and knocked all the pine trees which had nests in them without 

 result, until late in the afternoon when we put a Common Buzzard 

 off a nest about 70 feet up in a big pine and got a pair of rather 

 incubated eggs. We also saw two or three Snake Eagles, Circcstus 

 gallicus, and were shown a new nest of this species beneath which 

 was a feather or two from the bird but the nest contained no eggs. 

 Common Kestrels abounded in these wilds. 



