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be wondered at, for not even a Vulture's eyes could have 

 pierced the rain-scuds which swept over ; driving us to take 

 shelter among the rocks and to make rushes for new positions, 

 as our countrymen did in the assault on the Rhune in 

 November 1813. At the very last, one fine day came for 

 our visit to San Sebastian, where Ave saw the Blue Rock- 

 Thrush on Monte Orgullo, for the first time in the west ; 

 and then, homeward, by way of Bayonne. I may mention 

 that the museum in the Mairie of that city has been destroyed 

 by fire, and in it perished the local specimens of White's 

 Thrush and Pallas's Sand-Grouse which were mentioned in 

 my former paper. 



In the following list only those species are set down which 

 w^ere actually identified, and several which we ought to have 

 seen find no place. 



TURDUS VISCIVORUS, L. 



The Mistle-Thrush was generally distributed. Young 

 birds were met with in the beech-woods near Ripoll, 

 Catalonia, on May 18thj while on the road from Tarascon 

 to St. Girons we saw an adult attacking a Magpie, and 

 further on, a bird on its nest. 



TuRDUS MUSICUS, L. 



The Song- Thrush was observed on the skirts of the fir- 

 woods above Merens and at about 5000 feet. It will be 

 remembered that Mr. Eagle Clarke found a nest of this 

 species in the beech-region, lower down — the first authentic 

 record of the breeding of this Thrush in the higher 

 Pyrenees. 



TuRDUS MERULA, L. 



The Blackbird was observed in every suitable locality, but 

 it was by no means a conspicuous species. 



TuRDUS TORQUATUS, L. 



I saw a pair of Ring-Ouzels well, on June 10th, in the 

 glen between the Little and the Great Rhune, at about 

 2000 feet elevation, and just the place where one would 

 have expected to find the birds breeding in Scotland or the 



