68 TIMELIID^E. 



I took a good deal of pains to ascertain the correct local 

 Arabic name, which is " Bon lag-lag " ; and as no one could tell 

 me the meaning of the latter part, I conclude it is suggestive of 

 their cry, or rather clacking : one of the Arabic names of the 

 White Stork is " Bou lak-lak," from the noise made by the 

 clacking their bills. 



Among the Jews, who speak Spanish, they go by the name of 

 " Naranjero " (litt. " The orange-man "), from their orange-eating 

 propensities. They make a small hole in the side of an orange 

 and completely clean it out, leaving nothing but a .shell of 

 orange-peel, which remains hanging on the tree. I have more, 

 than once pulled these husks down, thinking them to be sound 

 fruit. Owing to the mischief they thus do, they are not 

 favourites, and consequently are more timid near Tangier than 

 about Larache, where we shot some of them. 



We were informed that they do not breed till the end of May, 

 and so had no opportunity of studying their nesting-habits. In 

 the end of April, near Larache, they were evidently not then 

 nesting ; and, as at Tangier, all those which we saw were near 

 gardens and villages. 



Mr. Meade- Waldo found them in February 1892, out in the 

 open, feeding on the flower of the Asphodel. 



This Bulbul certainly does not occur in the western part of 

 Andalucia ; I have tried everywhere for it. If found anywhere, 

 the coast near Tarifa would be the most likely ground ; but in 

 the orange-groves there, the Spaniards, when asked if there was a 

 bird like the " mirlo " which ate oranges, simply looked on me as 

 more "loco" than the generality of "los Ingleses," who, in their 

 opinion, are all mad, and disclaimed any knowledge of a " naran- 

 jero " in the shape of a bird of such size. The Great Titmouse, 

 however, they say eats oranges, but not unless the skin is broken. 



Sexes alike. General colour dull brown, except the white belly and 

 under tail-coverts, the latter sometimes faintly tinged with yellow. Length 

 8 inches, tail 4 inches. 



