74 Mr. H. Noble— For/y-/owr 
did not begin till ten days later. The lowest nest was not 
more than five feet from the ground_, and the highest about 
thirty. Four to seven eggs is the usual clutch ; eight were 
found once. 
Pica rustica. 
Locally common. In one district it simply swarmed, 
breeding in low cork-trees and in bramble-bushes only a few 
feet high ; one nest containing eggs was no higher than my 
knee. I noticed that many of those in the thick bramble- 
bushes were not roofed. On April 24th most nests contained 
full complements of eggs^ some of them having as many as 
eight. 
CORVUS MONEDULA. 
Common, but local. Many nests in holes in the old cork- 
trees, with fresh eggs on April 26th. 
CORVUS CORAX. 
Common, nesting mostly in the pine-woods. It seems 
curious that a bird which breeds so early in this country 
should be so much later in the South ^. The first full 
clutch of fresh eggs taken was on May 1st, and consisted of 
six; subsequently we obtained several nests with from five 
to seven, and on May 21st there were young just hatched. 
Ravens^ nests can easily be distinguished from below from 
Kites% Buzzards'; &c., by their much rounder and neater 
appearance. They are also deeper, and smaller sticks are 
used in the construction. 
Cypselus apus. 
Very common in some of the villages and still more so in 
Seville, where it was nesting by scores under the eaves of 
the houses on May 30th. 
Caprimulgus ruficollis. 
Common. I saw many birds, but did not find eggs 
* Mr. Saunders tells me that lie found Ravens feeding larj^e young 
on March 18th, 1868, at Baza, in the Province of Granada; so it is 
possible that those which I found were second nests; but, if this is the 
case, it seems curious that I never met with a young fledged Raven of 
the year. 
