i8o MEDITERRANEAN NOTES 



goats. We took our guns, but did nothing ; the hills 

 are most grievous walking, being covered with loose 

 and sharp-edged stones. 



" In this little bay, which I call Success Bay, we saw 

 but little in the bird way ; one snake eagle (Circaetus 

 gallicus]* a few blackbirds, linnets, goldfinches, many 

 buntings, two or three ravens, a gull or two, and black- 

 headed warblers were about all. W R , who 



had no gun, put up a pair of partridges. I got two 

 small, young gulls from the coral fishers, taken, they 

 say, on Toro, which I believe to be Lams audoumi ; 

 we bought also some red mullet, caught in this bay, 

 and a fair bit of coral. One of the Sonde goatherds, 

 on my asking about tortoises, said he had seen one 

 that morning, and conducted me to a shallow pool in 

 the little stream, where he soon grubbed out an emys 

 with his hoe, which I pocketed. Some of the coral boys 

 had a sparrow's nest, with eggs, and a nest of young 

 blackbirds. I find almost all the herring gulls' eggs 

 hard-sat, and very difficult to blow." 



" May 28//z. Very fine morning; stood out for Toro 

 about 10.30 a.m. with a light north-westerly breeze. 

 Found a very heavy sea outside, which broke so hard 

 upon Toro that though M and I went off" in the 



* The Snake Eagle (Circaetus gallicus) is common in Andalucia 

 during the summer, but on the approach of winter, as the snakes and 

 lizards, on which it feeds, retire, it migrates ir>to Africa. 



