Days' Nesting in Andalucia. 73 
Emberiza miliaria. 
Numerous in cultivated districts. Fresh eggs April 16th; 
others on May 6th were slightly incubated. 
Galerita cristata. 
Exceedingly common on the corn-lands_, and found breeding 
right np to the edges of the so-called " mountains.^^ Many 
nests were seen, from April 14th to the last day of our 
stay^ with fresh eggs. The Crested Lark was often sitting 
on three eggs^ but we took some nests with four and a few 
with five. 
Melanocorypha calandra. 
Common; more so in the large grass-fields near the river 
than on the cultivated land. We found a few nests from 
May 5th onwards ; one on May 20th contained four young 
and two infertile eggs. This bird is easily distinguished 
on the wing from the other Larks seen in the same locality _, 
not only by its size^ but by the white edgings of the 
secondaries, which are very conspicuous in flight. 
Stufnus unicolor. 
Local, but very numerous in certain districts. From 
a large pigeon-house I took sixty eggs, and could have 
collected as many dozens had I wished, for the birds were 
there in swarms, and had driven the pigeons away to such an 
extent that the owner meditated their destruction. On 
April 26th most of the nests had sets of six or seven eggs very 
slightly incubated. The note seemed to me to be much 
softer than that of our bird, but in habits and mode of nesting 
I could see no diff'erence. 
Whilst on the subject of Starlings, 1 may mention that last 
winter several thousand dozens of S. vulgaris were netted on 
the Island of Tarfia, and the skins sent to Paris, where they 
fetched 2\d. each ! 
Cyanopica cooki. 
Common in the pine-woods. The first nest was found on 
April 24th, and contained six fresh eggs ; but general laying 
