170 DALMATIAN PELICAN. 



year through, and on many hikes and swamps, such 

 as Zigeri, Kopai, and Paralynni, are broad colonies of 

 them. They are also very plentiful on the lakes of 

 Missolonghi and Thermopylae. In places incredibly 

 difficult to reach, where floating islands are found, they 

 place their nests very thickly together, supported 

 among the reeds and rushes, and generally soaked 

 with wet. The whole neighbourhood of these congre- 

 gated nests is covered with their dull white dung and 

 a multitude of foul fish which they have dropped 

 about, and which makes the spot horribly offensive." 



''My friend, Lieut. Freyberg, assured me that after 

 much search in these breeding-places, he had found 

 in a nest — if we may call the hole they use by such a 

 name — a full-grown yoimg one, and another only 

 covered with down, which can only be explained by 

 the supposition that two females had each laid an egg 

 in the same nest. 



"The yellow grey young birds have a very unsightly 

 appearance, and these never-satisfied screamers, with 

 their shrill shrieking voice and the unformed head 

 hanging on their crop, make an unsightly picture. 



''Near the nest the old ones are not shy, and if 

 you can get to their ground you may kill as many 

 as you like. They fly gracefully and lightly, and 

 describe as many circles as the Gulls. I have never 

 seen them fishing together, but they seem to like the 

 company of the Cormorant. When they have stufifed 

 themselves with food, they may be seen sitting and 

 resting on the low rocks along the shores of the sea." 



Lord Lilford says it is common in the Ionian Islands 

 throughout the year, on the coasts of Epirus, and 

 that it breeds at Suttanieh, on the Gulf of Arta. — 

 ("Ibis," ii, p. 355,) Mr. W. H. Simpson also met with 



