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and ploughed slowly through it till off Tarifa, when Tracey 

 stood over under the African land and got smooth water 



and strong current in his favour. I reports two 



birds fresh to our list viz., gannet (Sula bassana\ and 

 a petrel, probably Bulwer's petrel (Oceanites bulweri}.* 

 Bonelli's eagle reported as sitting near the signal 

 station. We remained at Gibraltar till the end of the 

 month." 



MALAGA 



"March \st to nth. Had several visits from Rafael 

 Mena, who said that it had been an exceptionally bad 



winter for birds of all sorts. I made an expedition 



with said Mena to el chorro in search of lammergeiers 

 (Gypaetus barbatus\ but could not find the nesting place 

 or get a shot at the birds, of which they saw one. He 

 brought back one chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus\ of which 

 they saw many, and also reported golden eagle (Aquila 

 fuha), black chat (Saxicola leucura], and blue rock-thrush 

 (Monticola cyanus}. T., I , and Peck made several 



* The petrels belong to a large division of birds distinguished 

 by tubular nostrils (Tutbinares\ which frequent every sea and ocean 

 of the world. This division includes many and varied forms, from 

 the giant Wandering (Albatross (Diomedea exulans) to the little Storm 

 Petrel (Procellaria pelagica). The shearwaters, as before said, also 

 fall into this weird, restless group of birds. Some of them never 

 touch land but at nesting time; and they have the general habit 

 of wandering the waters like lost spirits. Ames damnees of the 

 Bosphorus; yelkouan of the Arab, from the Fulmar (Fulmarus 

 glacialis) of the Arctic to those of the Southern seas they have 

 impressed every voyager in the same way. 



