ORNITHOLOGY 



OF THE 



STRAITS OF GIBRALTAR. 



INTRODUCTION. 



THE list of birds and ornithological notes contained in this 

 book are compiled from observations made on both sides of 

 the Straits of Gibraltar on the African side within a region 

 extending from Tangier southwards to the lakes of Has el 

 Doura, beyond Larache, and eastward from Tangier to Tetuan 

 and Ceuta, not reaching inland more than ten or twelve miles ; 

 on the European side is included that part of Andalucia which 

 would be bounded by an imaginary line drawn from Gibraltar 

 to Malaga, thence to Granada, Cordova, and Seville, along the 

 delta of the Guadalquivir to Cadiz. 



Nearly all the information relating to the birds of the Spanish 

 side of the Straits is collected from personal observations made 

 during a more or less prolonged stay at the Rock, between 

 February 1868 and May 1872, and again from February to 

 May 1874, but including during this time only one summer 

 period, viz. July, August, and the first half of September. 

 For the first three years of my residence at Gibraltar I was 

 quartered with my regiment, the remaining time being passed 



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