2i2 MEDITERRANEAN NOTES 



February to May, 1882 

 SEVILLA 



" February $th. Old Manuel Llanos came, bring- 

 ing with him a good specimen of the imperial eagle 

 (Aquila adalberti) in the sandy mottled plumage of im- 

 maturity, two grey-lag geese {Anser ferus}, and two 

 Spanish magpies (Cyanopica cookt). He says that owing 

 to the abundant rains a great number of birds nested in 

 the marisma and cotos last year, amongst others the 

 glossy ibis, which had not done so before to his know- 

 ledge ; of this species he got some three clutches of eggs, 

 all of which, except that one sent to me, were destroyed 



by mice. P went to the Museo and Casa de Pilatos, 



and I to see old F. Barlow, who is quite laid up. 



Noticed willow wren (Phylloscopus trochilus] in orange 

 trees in the Plaza under our windows. 



" Manuel also brought a young imperial eagle alive, 

 insisting that it was of another species, which only appears 

 in these parts during the winter. 



" Drove out (in afternoon) along Las Delicias and 

 away back by the Canas de Carmona on the road to 

 Alcata de Guadeira. Lovely bright warm day." 



" Noticed the following birds : Circus cyaneus, Hirundo urbica, 

 Ruticilla titys, Pas>er domesticus, Fringilla ccelebs, Fringilla serinus, 

 Carduelis elegans, Anthus campestris, Alauda cristata, A. arvensis, 

 Sturnus vulgaris, Turdus musicus, Grus cinereus, Pratincola rubicola, 

 Motadlla alba, Emberiza miliaria" 



