T HE IBIS 
ELEVENTH SERIES. 
Vol. III. No. 4. OCTOBER 1921. 
XXXI .—Bird Notes from Southern Spain . 
By J. H. Stenhouse. 
The following notes have been compiled from observations 
made in southern Spain between December 1918 and July 
1920, while the writer was serving at the Royal Naval 
Hospital, Gibraltar. Anyone using that fortress as a daily 
base for ornithological work in Spain finds it very difficult 
to get any distance into the country, and for that reason no 
attempt w T as made to cover a great amount of ground, but 
efforts were confined to working a small district as thoroughly 
as possible. Most of these observations, therefore, were 
made around Algeciras and in the neighbourhood of the 
Sierra Carbonera (Queen of Spain's Chair); but the local 
enforcement at Algeciras in 1920 of a Spanish law prohibit¬ 
ing the firing of a gun between March 1st and August 1st, 
hampered work near there so much, that, whenever possible, 
attention was given instead to Almoraima Cork Woods, 
16 miles to the north. On three occasions, through the 
kindness of my old friend Colonel Yerner, visits of a few 
see. xi.— vol. hi. 2q 
