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visitor to Sartene and Bonifacio^ though not resident there. 

 It has apparently extended its breeding-range northwards of 

 late years, and has now established itself at any rate as a 

 summer visitor in the low-lying country to the south-east 

 of the island, where a good many scattered pairs breed in 

 holes of cork-oaks. First eggs found on May 9. 



12. Oriolus oriolus (L.). Golden Oriole. 



Visits the island on passage only. Wharton saw large 

 numbers, chiefly males, at Biguglia on April 17, but few 

 afterwards. Whitehead records its first occurrence on 

 April 24; but he saw few pass, and the last on May 29. 



13. COCCOTHRAUSTES COCCOTHRAUSTES (L.). Hawfiuch. 



Local names: Cajn yrossi (north), Schia korino (south); 

 Pizzigone (Giglioli). Resident and not uncommon, but 

 owing to its retiring habits not often seen. It breeds not 

 only in the low ground, but also in the mountain forests to 

 over 3000 ft. at least. Jesse records it from the Bastia 

 market, while Backhouse, Trevelyan, and Parrot obtained 

 specimens from the Ajaccio market in winter. Whitehead 

 describes it as fairly common, but very local. He only saw 

 one bird on the west coast, but took two nests with fresh 

 eggs on May 16 and an incubated clutch on June 6. I 

 found nests in 1908 and 1909 in lichen-covered cork-oaks 

 with full clutches on May 27 and 28, and also observed the 

 birds in the alder groves among the high pine-forests in 

 the middle of May. (For notes on Corsican specimens of 

 this species, see Hartert, Yog. pal. Fauna, i. p. 56, and 

 Parrot, Ornith. Jahrbuch, xxi. p. 127.) Average size of 

 9 eggs, 23-22 X 17-31 mm. 



14. LiGURiNus cHLORis CHLORis (L.). Grecnfinch. 

 Local name : Verdone. A tolerably common resident in 



the hills as well as on the low ground. Parrot records this 

 species under the name of Chloris chloris auranliivenlris 

 (Cab.) with a query (?), but all the breeding birds seen by 

 me were obviously duller in the colouring of the under 

 surface than Spanish birds. From the wing-measurements 



