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occasionally one may be seen soaring over the outskirts of the 

 seaport towns. Whitehead failed to discover a nest, but we 

 found a large young biril in grey down in a nest in a very 

 large isolated pine near the coast on ]\Iay 11, and saw a 

 recently occupied nest, from which two eggs had been taken 

 on the previous day, on May 16. This was probably a 

 second attempt to breed. 



129. Perxis APivoRus L. Honey-Buzzard. 



Only recorded by Giglioli, who saw one on October 9 

 near Barghetta. 



130. Pa.vdion haliaetus (L.). Osprey. 



Local name : Ayida di Mai'e. Although rarely allowed 

 by the fishermen to breed, the Osj^rey is still a not uncommon 

 resident in Corsica. In winter it is to be found on most of 

 the lagoons along the east coast, and Backhouse noticed a 

 pair haunting the Gulf of Ajaccio in the winter of 1890-91, 

 but Parrot failed to find it there in 1910. Its breeding- 

 places are the isolated rocks, sometimes only a few hundred 

 yards from the shore. AVhiteliead found one such nest 

 with three eggs on May 16, 1883, on a low rock, to 

 which he was able to wade, and in the following year he took 

 a clutch of three eggs from the same nest on April 23. In 

 1908-09 I visited three nesting-places, all at varying heights 

 on isolated rocks. One nest was a huge structure of sticks 

 and rubbish thrown up by the sea, but the others were very 

 slight and carelessly built. As a rule, the eggs are broken 

 by the fishermen, btit we obtained one clutch of two eggs, 

 and subsequently two clutches of one and two eggs respec- 

 tively were sent to us. 



131. YuLTUR MONACHus (L.). Black Vulture. 



Giglioli records an individual seen at Porto Vecchio on 

 September 26. 



132. Gyps fulvus (Gm.). Griffon Vulture. 



On May 23 R. H. Read and I had an excellent view of a 

 Griffon soaring over a lagoon on the east coast. It passed 

 overhead, and all the time that it remained in sight was 



