482 Captain H. Lynes — Bird-notes 



CiNCLUs ciNCLus. Dipper. 



San Cristobal. — The Serraiiia de Ronda has probably no 

 perennial streams of suitable size for Dippers. None were 

 seen. 



Sierra Nevada. — Plentiful in the upper waters of the 

 jNIonachil from 6000 to 4000 ft., and doubtless to be found 

 all the way down to the Vega. All the birds seen were 

 adults, but scarcely any time was devoted to looking for 

 nests or securing specimens — the latter no easy task with a 

 collecting-gun, as the birds were very shy. 



[It was unfortunate that no specimens from these moun- 

 tains were obtained, for they are practically unknown in 

 collections [cf. Ilartert, Vog. pal. Faun. i. p. 790). — 



H. F. jr.] 



Chelidon rustica. Swallow. 



We omilted to make notes on the distribution of the 

 Swallow in the Sierras. The species was breeding in 

 numbers in the village of Grazalema (2700 ft.) and in 

 houses below that altitude, but we found none nesting 

 among the crags as the writer has experienced on the lower 

 Guadiana and in Sicily. 



HiRUNDO URBicA. Martin. 



San Cristobal. — Breeding colonies of the House-Martin 

 were frequent in caverns among the cliiFs from about 

 3000 ft. downwards on the mountain, as well as in suitable 

 places among the " foothills.'^ Nests were building on 

 April 9th, and by April 26th incubation had become general 

 among the members of a colony whose nests, in wonderful 

 profusion, studded the sloping roof of an inaccessible cavern. 



Sierra Nevada. — Quantities were nesting in the preci- 

 pices from 5500 ft. down to the embouchure of the 

 Monachil. 



^KiPARiA RUPESTRis (Scop.). Crag-Martiu. 



Sail Cristobal. — The Crag-Martin we found in smaller 

 colonies than, but in much the same places as the House- 

 Martin, the two species being often alongside one another, 



