MEDITERRANEAN NOTES 207 



BIRDS SEEN AT ALBUFERA 



"Neophron percnopterus, Circus cteruginosus, Hirundo rustica, H. 

 urbica, Cotyle riparia, Cypsdus apus, Sylvia cistieola, S. turdoides r 

 S. provincialis, Ardea cinerea, A. purpurea, Oriolus galbula, 

 Totanus calidris, T. hypoleueus, &gialitis (?), Anas (sp. ?), 

 Budytes flavus. Many warblers of sorts." 



" May $th. Fine bright morning. Tracey came to 

 me about 6 a.m. and announced that the Crown Prince 

 of Austria had arrived, and about 8 a.m. told me that 

 he and his people were all landing with guns. Shortly 

 afterwards came Don Manuel Cabelle in a great state of 

 agitation to tell me that they were all going off imme- 

 diately, that nothing was prepared, and that the Prince 

 invited me and T. to join him in the expedition. We 

 jumped into our shooting things, and went ashore. Found 

 that the Prince and his people had started in four 

 carriages a few minutes before ; we followed at once in 

 a small 'bus with Don Manuel, who kept on repeating 

 that it was folly, nothing was prepared, nothing would 

 be shot, and so on. We soon overtook the other 

 carriages, which were very badly horsed, and on getting 

 within about half a mile of Salar, the fishing village of the 

 Albufera, the Prince lost patience, as the road and horses 

 were so bad, and jumped out. I got out and introduced 

 myself and T. to him. He is a very slight, tall boy, 

 not the least like the portrait which he sent to me. He 

 was most cordially civil, introduced me to his brother-in- 

 law, Prince Leopold of Bavaria, and the rest of his suite, 

 amongst others one of the Brehms, who accompanies him 



