MEDITERRANEAN NOTES 229 



marble with white veins, whilst there are patches of 

 bright green and brilliant yellow sandstone in some spots. 



" The absence of sea birds is very remarkable. We 

 only saw four gulls and two shags. The ravens have 

 a nest in what appears to be a tolerably accessible 

 spot on the eastern side of the promontory mentioned. 

 When I shot the first two rock doves, several of 

 their feathers floating in the air were caught and carried 

 off by the crag martins which are very numerous. 



" The doctor reports two pair of partridges (Caccabis 



" Birds seen : Neophron percnopterus, Falco tinnunculus^ Fako 

 (sp. ?), Corvus corax, Cotile rupestrts, Monticola cyanus, Chelidon urbica, 

 Columba tivia, Larus kucophceus, Phalacrocorax graculus" 



"April 21 st. Another lovely day. The doctor landed 

 with gun and Zulu at the head of the bay on east side, 

 and T. and I went away in the cutter round the east 

 side of our promontory. We saw few pigeons ; they were 

 very wild, and we did not bag one. We attempted a 

 siege of the ravens' nest, but the cliff was so friable that 

 it was a service of danger, and we had to abandon it. 

 The yacht came round to us. We saw a common tern 

 (Sterna fluviatilis). Steered off to the eastward ; coast 

 full of iron, worked in many places. We went away in 

 cutter again to the south-east : splendid cliffs full of caves, 

 but we only saw two pigeons far out of shot ; saw a 

 peregrine falcon, no gulls, no shags, no seals. Came 



