Mil. O. COUDEU’b POIITUGUESE NOTES. 
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After a fruitless search after the Ibises we turned our boat 
lioinewards. On the way we came upon a nesting colony of Black 
Terns. The nests were floating amongst the masses of dead drifted 
reeds, and the eggs were for the most part just hatcliing. Black- 
headed Gulls were breeding also. We saw two species of Grebes 
{cridatus and griseigenu). A Gadwall was bagged ; and we got a 
shot at an Eagle, who, however, merely shook himself and went 
off. Wo arrived homo at eight o’clock, and, after supper and a pipe, 
were only too glad to “ turn in.” 
Note. — The above paper has not been revised by Mr. Young, as he is 
absent from England. [Eu.] 
III. 
A FEW POBTUGUESE NOTES. 
Bv 0. CORDER. 
Read 24//1 November, 1885. 
It may be thought that the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ 
Society has sufficient scope in its own county without taking other 
parts of England, if so, certainly it is much more out of place to 
receive “ a few short notes from Portugal.” My excu.se is this, that I 
was so pleased myself with the country, the climate, the people, the 
animal and plant life, that I thought a short paper on the subject 
might be acceptable to you this evening. If the Moor, who so 
many years held sway in the Peninsula, were now to come back 
and visit the scenes of his former triumphs and occupation, he 
would find much to remind him how little had changed during the 
past three hundred years. The names of the people as De Moura, 
