184 MEDITERRANEAN NOTES 



" We saw a kite (Mihus regalis] hanging about the 

 north side of the harbour, many cormorants (I think Ph. 

 carbo^ and herring gulls. About the cliffs and caves 

 some rock doves, many swifts and kestrels. On the 

 island a good many rabbits, some pied with white and 

 some sandy, a pair of ravens, an eagle, which looked to 

 me like Circaetus gallicus, a few rock doves, a gull or 

 two, and some blue rock-thrushes. The lizards, which 

 are shining glossy black above and blue beneath, seem to 

 me to be the same variety of race of Lacerta muralis as 

 that found in Filfla, Malta. The lighthouse men say that 

 there are no snakes whatever on the island, and that many 

 birds kill themselves against the light at passage times." 



CAMERA 



" June 4-th. Fine morning. Just as I went on deck 

 at 6 a.m. a breeze sprang up from the east-north-east, 

 and we spun away round Cape Salinas to the lee of the 

 island of Cahera, which is high and precipitous with 

 wood and scrub in many places. 



" At the west of the island, a fine range of weather- 

 worn limestone precipices, we saw very few birds ; a kite, 

 two or three shags, some swifts, herring gulls (one of 

 which was shot), a blue rock-thrush, and a large brown 

 hawk, possibly an osprey, were about all. Saw a beautiful 

 flying fish as we came ofF to the yacht. I noticed a 

 great many of the smaller shearwaters at sea, which look 

 very dark on the back compared to the others. Saw 



