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other of the productions of these climates which you may wish 

 to see. I have made a considerable collection of the birds, 

 amphibia, and fishes, and remarked the circumstances of their 

 migrations. The Hirundo melba breeds in thousands on this 

 rock. The Hir. rupestris caudd emarginatd non forcipatd of 

 Scopoli breeds in the inland mountains of Andalusia and Gre- 

 nada, and in the winter, when those mountains are covered 

 with snow, resides regularly on these coasts, and migrates for 

 a short time only into Barbary. The Hir.pratincoldj Trachelia 

 of Scopoli, sometimes appears in this country *. Alauda calan- 

 dra and Turdus arundinaceus, orjunco, breed common in Spain 

 and Barbary. Turdus cyanus, or solitarius, abounds on this 

 rock. Also another species of Turdus, which I cannot find 

 in any author ; it is in all parts of a glossy black except the 

 uropygium and rectrices, which are snow-white, tipped with 

 black. Upupa epops, Oriolus galbula, Merops apiaster, Junx 

 torquilla, Phcenicopterus, visit us annually in the spring ; Cha- 

 radrius cedicnemus in the winter. Among the fishes the most 

 remarkable are the Lepidopus and Lepadogaster, two new genera 

 of Dr. Gouan. The former is generally about six feet long, 

 and comes from the ocean in summer in abundance. This 

 species has the caudal fin forked, not subulate as described by 

 Dr. Gouan. As for other parts of Nat. Hist., I have for some 

 years kept a journal of the winds and weather, and variations 

 of the thermometer and barometer, and measured the quanti- 

 ties of rain fallen this last year. I have also attempted some- 

 thing of a Flora, or state of the vegetable world during each 

 month in the year ; but I am at present not sufficiently con- 

 versant in Botany to make much progress in that branch. 



But if from these loose hints you should be pleased to judge 

 it to be in my power to furnish you with any satisfactory in- 

 telligence from this part of the world, you will give me great 

 pleasure in honouring me with your commands. And what- 

 ever instructions you may choose to favour me with, be pleased 

 to make use of the following address by any ships bound to 

 London, " To the Rev. Mr. John White, to the care of Mr. 

 White, Bookseller in Fleet Street, London." 



* [ Glareola pratincola of modern naturalists.] 



