^8 The OoiOgists^ Record^ September i, 1921. 



disturbed a Black Wheatear from a small hole in the wall between 

 the ends of two rafters, and after some trouble extracted the nest 

 with four eggs, somewhat incubated. The nest was made of dry 

 grass lined with feathers, and a few small stones and bits of plaste ; 

 were placed under the front edge of the nest. In a medlar tree 

 in a garden on the outskirts of the town McNeile got a nest of the 

 Serin with four eggs. The nest was concealed in foliage at the 

 extremity of a drooping branch and was smaller and more shallow 

 than that of the Goldfinch and had no down in it, being lined with 

 hair. In the next tree was a Goldfinch's nest with four eggs, affording 

 an interesting comparison. The Serin's eggs were whiter and more 

 like miniature Greenfinch's eggs. We also found the nest of a 

 Common WTiitethroat, Sylvia communis, in a bramble clump with 

 six incubated eggs. 



The next day I spent shooting on the mountain and got examples 

 of both the Black-eared and Black-throated forms of (Enanthe 

 hispanica hispanica ; also an example of a species of Crested Lark, 

 Galerida thedce, and a Stonechat, of which there were many but all 

 noticeably blacker in plumage than British examples. I also got 

 the male bird of a pair of Wheatears which struck me as considerably 

 different to ours, which had been previously recorded as occurring 

 here on migration. This pair were on the same patch of ground 

 on which I noticed similar birds last year and I think were either 

 breeding or about to breed. My male bird proved to be an example 

 of (Enanthe oenanihe nivea, first described from the Sierra Nevada, 

 and is, I beheve, the first authentic example secured from the 

 Cadiz Province, although there is one from Malaga in the British 

 Museum. I have therefore presented it to Tring Museum. It 

 differs from the Common Wheatear in the longer bill, much 

 greater extent of white on the forehead and much purer blue-grey 

 of the upper parts, without an}' brown shade, while the wings are 

 blacker. 



The 23rd I also spent shooting on the mountain and got an 

 example of the local Dartford Warbler, a common bird here, but 

 of a different race to the British form, and also saw a number of 

 Spectacled Warblers, Meadow Buntings and a Rock Thrush. In the 

 evening one of our climbers from Benamahoma brought in another 

 set of two Egyptian Vulture's eggs. 



On the 24th we visited the woods towards Ronda with a boy 

 as guide and McNeile obtained a nest of the Sub-alpine Warbler 



