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raven and lizards before mentioned. A large black snake 

 reported, apparently in pursuit of a quail. On Toro 

 we found a very great number of F. eleonor<e, more 

 than 1 have seen together before, but Lams audouini 

 had made himself scarce, and I am not quite certain 

 that I clearly made out a single bird of that species ; 

 the men, however, found six of its eggs, which I 

 emptied with very great trouble, as they almost all 

 contained young birds, dead and within a day or two 

 of hatching. I repeatedly saw and had two or three very 

 long shots at a beautiful Barbary falcon, but I only knocked 

 out a wing feather or two. I think from the action of this 

 bird that the nest is somewhere in the precipices near the 

 extreme summit of the island on the east side. The men 

 report thousands of green lizards, but could not catch any. 

 We bagged five F. eleonor<e, six eggs of Larus audouini and a 

 young shag, cut over by Jem Poland with a boat's stretcher." 



" May 3<D/A. The steward found the remains of some 

 small bird in the crop of one of the hobby-plumaged 

 Eleonora falcons. The rest of those shot yesterday con,- 

 tained several species of beetles, dragon-flies, grasshoppers, 

 and an animal something like a diminutive boiled shrimp. 

 Saw a great many porpoises and a turtle." 



PORT MAHON 



" May 3U/. Some flying fish seen off Cape Negro. 

 In the harbour of Port Mahon saw kestrel, swift, swallow, 

 herring gull, and heard quails." 



