THE IBIS. 



SIXTH SERIES. 



No. X. APRIL 1891. 



XVIII. — Notes on Birds observed in Switzerland ; chiefly in 

 the Cantons of Vaud and Neuchdtel. By Howard 

 SauxNders, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



The present paper contains — with few exceptions — the 

 results of personal experiences during twelve months in 

 Switzerland. My excuse for its poverty must be that liability 

 to sudden recall to England prevented me from making long 

 excursions in the mountains^ and even compelled me to re- 

 side near one of the main lines of communication with 

 London; so that the birds mentioned are chiefly those which 

 came within notice during the course of easy walks. I saw 

 comparatively little of the habits of the Alpine species, many 

 of which, however, have already been well described by my 

 friend Mr. Scott B. Wilson (Ibis, 1887, pp. 130-150), and 

 by the Rev. W. W. Fowler ('The Oxford Tutor') in his 

 ' Year with the Birds.' 



From the second half of January to the early part of May, 

 1890, my quarters were at Lausanne, a city which, as many 

 people know, is set on the side of a hill and riven by ravines. 

 All around are vineyards, but half-an-hour's walk further 

 uphill brings one to the large wood of Sauvabelin^ 

 chiefly of beech and oak, with a few spruce-firs j consider- 



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