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start ( R . phcenicura) more than that of R. tithys; and he was 
very noisy about daybreak and sunset. These were the only 
birds of this race that I met with, though R. tithys was very 
abundant amongst the rocks at some distance from the village. 
We remained at San Ildefonso till June 15 th, making a few 
more expeditions up into the Sierra, where we found several 
more nests of Vultur monachus (each containing a single young 
bird), some more nests of Aquila pennata with eggs, and ob¬ 
tained on one occasion a fine specimen of Gyps fulvus, as before 
mentioned. I was surprised to find the common Hedge- 
Sparrow {Accentor modularis) in great abundance high up on 
the mountains, haunting and breeding amongst the scrub which 
crops up amongst the detritus and scattered boulders below the 
crags, in just the sort of locality 1 should have expected to find 
A. alpinus , with which species, however, I did not here meet. 
The Rock-Thrush {Petrocincla saxatilis), the Rock-Swallows 
{Hirundo rupestris), and the Wall-Creeper ( Tichodroma muraria ) 
were common amongst the peaks of the Sierra, and I on several 
occasions noticed the Alpine Swift ( Cypselus melba). We often 
saw a pair of Lammergeyers ( Gypaetus barbatus)y but never 
could manage to secure a specimen. A woodcutter met us one 
day in the forest swinging a young Golden Eagle in one hand, 
whilst the other grasped an egg from the same nest. He had 
just taken them, and took us to the spot; the nest was built in 
the top of a low pine, at not more than twelve or fourteen feet 
from the ground, in a craggy and thickly-grown part of the 
forest, at about a mile from the village. Manuel was at the 
place before daybreak the next morning, and came in a few 
hours after with the female bird, which he had shot as she 
came sailing to the nest with a Partridge in her talons. The 
boys brought in several eggs of Budytes flava, and one nest with 
eggs and bird of Motacilla sulphurea , as well as some eggs of 
Cyanopica cooki , Scops giu , Ruticilla tithys , and others of no 
particular interest. 
Here ended my ornithological researches in Spain. I regret 
that, not having yet visited the country during the winter 
months, I am unable to give any very precise information, from 
personal observation, as to the waders and swimming-birds of 
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