202 MEDITERRANEAN NOTES 



I did not see one herring gull. All L. fuscus, ridibundus, 

 and, I think, a few melanocephalus, but cannot be quite 

 c ertain." 



"April yd to April lyd. Between these dates I was 

 kept on board by an attack of gout. The weather was 

 very unsettled and showery, with cold winds." 



''April 21 st. V took an egg of neophron from a 



nest of Circaetus gallicus in cork wood ; this is the 

 first instance I ever heard of of the former species 

 breeding on a tree. 



" V and T. took a nest, with five eggs, of blue 



rock-thrush (M. cyanus] from hole in wall in Charles V. 

 rampart. 



" V caught a kite (M. regalis} on her nest, in 



a trap, and took two eggs in a tall pine tree." 



MALAGA 



" April 2$th. Started in a carriage for a spot to the 

 left of road to Torre Molinos, some three miles off, 



where M expected to find some crakes, but none 



were seen. The greater part of the flat country is 

 covered with sugar canes, and almost all this part 

 belongs to the Hesedias, who have a large sugar 

 factory, iron foundries and cotton mills. We lunched at 

 the house of their administrator, a very civil individual, 

 from Estremadura, who gave me wonderful accounts of 

 the number and variety of birds near Caceres. 



