176 Lord Lilford on the Ornithology of Spain. 
for a considerable time discover the bird from which it came. I, 
expecting to see the Buzzard circling in the air above my head, 
did not examine the trees closely, until at length I was certain 
that the bird was in a thick ilex within a few yards, and at length 
discovered that my Buzzard was nothing but a Jay. _ I never 
heard this imitation of the Buzzard in any country except Spain; 
but there it is one of the most frequent of the Jay’s many notes, 
and so exact a copy as at first to deceive the most experienced 
ears. The Jay, Garrulus glandarius (in Spanish (( Arrendajo ”), 
appears to be common in most parts of Spain. During my 
ramble on this occasion in the grounds of the Casa de Campo, I 
suddenly came face to face with a Scops-Owl, Scops giu, which 
was sitting tightly drawn up against the trunk of an elm about 
five feet from the ground. We contemplated each other, no 
doubt with mutual admiration, for some minutes, till the Owl, 
after bowing politely several times, retired to a thick ilex at some 
distance, where I left him. This species was then beginning to 
make its appearance in Castile; a fortnight later it was very 
abundant, and its melancholy call, u keeyou,” “ keeyou,” to be 
heard throughout the night, and often during the day, in all 
parts of the country. 
The common Green Woodpecker, Gecinus viridis, is very 
abundant about the Casa de Campo; and on this occasion I also 
noticed one pair of the Grey-headed Green Woodpecker, Gecinus 
canus , which is, as far as I have been able to ascertain, by no 
means common in Spain. I certainly never again recognized it 
during my stay in the Castiles. The Green Woodpecker is 
known in Spain by the name of “ Pito real” and appears to be 
generally distributed throughout the country. The Hoopoe, 
Upupa epops (in Spanish “ Abubilla”), was just arriving from its 
winter-quarters in the south, and to be seen in pairs strutting 
about the sandy paths in the upper part of these grounds. I 
noticed a few of our British Pied Flycatchers, Muscicapa atrica- 
pilla 9 and great numbers of Goldfinches, Carduelis elegans , and 
Serins, Serinus hortulanus. Bed-legged Partridges, Caccabis 
rufa, constantly rose before me in pairs, and their cackling call- 
note resounded on all sides, while great numbers of Woodpigeons 
haunted the ilex-groves. These last birds were still in flocks. 
