NOTES 
FROM 
lille orernee mle IL. 
A FEW weeks spent on the coasts of Dalmatia and Istria, and 
in excursions into the Herzegovina, afforded me opportunities 
of making occasional ornithological notes; and as some of 
these jottings may not be wholly devoid of interest, I have 
undertaken to arrange them in the form of a list. I fear, 
however, that the many gaps therein, and the superficial 
nature of my remarks, will very likely be irritating to the 
naturalist, but my excuse must be found in the manner in 
which I travelled and the character of the districts that I 
visited. 
It is no easy matter to collect notes of this sort from a 
fast steamer or while driving along the highroad ; and where 
I had a chance of rambling about on foot, the impenetrability 
of the thorny evergreen thickets and the seas of jagged 
slippery stones greatly impeded my progress. The shyness 
of the birds, too, formed another difficulty, for the little 
songsters, which in our gardens and woods allow one to 
approach them quite confidingly, there fly with timorous haste 
into the thickest hiding-places, a fact that greatly increases 
the difficulty of making accurate observations, especially of 
the Warblers. 
