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feathered. Fishermen brought two bass, 1 1 Ibs. and 

 6J Ibs." 



WEST COAST OF CORSICA. SAGONA 



" May 1 8M. We rounded Maddalena, found heavy 

 sea and fresh breeze ; held away through the straits, 

 passed close to Bonifacio and crept along the western side 

 of Corsica into a calm. Ran into the bay of Sagona and 

 anchored in a sheltered nook at the head on north-east 

 corner thereof in about eight fathoms. This coast of 

 Corsica did not please my eye so much as the other, 

 but it is full of bays, and clouds hid the mountain tops. 



" Saw a flock of white birds flying along the coast, 

 which I believe to be Ardea gar-zetta" 



" May 1 9/A. A tired turtle-dove flew round us 

 several times and tried to alight on our rigging." 



NICE 



" May 12nd. Louis Galle had many night herons 

 (Nycticorax griseus), purple heron (Ardea purpurea), one 

 little bittern (Ardetta minuta), one red-footed falcon (Falco 

 vespertinus\ several lesser grey shrike (Lanius minor], 

 whiskered tern (Hydrochelidon fissifes], lately killed near 

 Nice. He told me that last spring he had obtained 

 a good specimen of the Caspian tern (Sterna cas-pia] 

 here ; he had various reptiles, of which I bought a 

 beautiful specimen alive of Coronella girundica. He had 



