AKATID^E. 215 



" Unluckily, I was prevented from visiting the main colony of 

 the Flamingoes, for the Crown Prince, having got the eggs he 

 wanted, decided to return at once to where we had seen Lams 

 gelastes in the morning, which bird, according to Dr. Brehm, who 

 accompanied us, was not known then to breed in Spain. 



" Two wild-looking men, frequenters of the marisma, who the 

 Guardias contemptuously termed Indians, because of their 

 savage appearance, and who had conducted us to the Flamingoes' 

 nesting-place, assured me that if I would go on for a media legua 

 they would show hundreds of nests placed together (junto}. They 

 described the nests as all small mud-hillocks, raised a few inches 

 above the surface of the water when first built, but subsequently 

 left high and dry as the water receded both from evaporation and 

 natural drainage. These men were, of course, well acquainted 

 with the camels, whose presence in the marisma they seemed to 

 think the most natural thing in the world, since they had alike 

 been born and bred in this extraordinary wilderness." 



Mr. Abel Chapman appears to have visited this identical 

 situation on llth May, 1883, and gives an interesting account 

 (' Ibis,' 1884, p. 66, pi. iv.) of the Flamingoes' nests, but which 

 on that date did not contain eggs. 



Head, neck, and throat black ; front and sides of head and upper throat 

 white ; black mark between eye and bill. Length 25 inches. 



Young in first plumage. Basal half of upper bill blackish ; general colour 

 greyish white, each feather above striated with dark brown ; no pink in 

 the plumage ; legs and feet blackish. 



Order ANSERES. Family AN ATID.33. 



Subfamily CYGNIN^E. 



229. Cygnus musicus, Bechstein. The Whooper Swan. 

 Spanish. Cisne. 



This is the only species of Swan which I was able to identify 

 in Andalucia, having examined one specimen shot on the Guadal- 



