584 Mr. J. H. Stenhouse i [Ibis, 
young were seen leaving the nest on 11 April. The nests were 
chiefly in small low furze bushes and very difficult to find; 
they were also placed in heather. The wings of six males 
ranged from 48 to 51 mm., of three females 48 to 50. The 
only evidence of migration obtained was the presence of one 
low down, close to the sea at Gibraltar, along with other 
migrants on 3 March ; the wind had been strong easterly for 
two days. 
Favier records it as a migrant at Tangier. Hartert (Yog. 
pal. Fauna, p. 601) gives, on Jourdain’s authority, the eggs of 
this southern Spanish bird as distinctly smaller than those 
of S. u. dartfordiensis , thus confirming the bird’s smaller size. 
[These are quite typical of the north African form. How 
far north it extends has yet to be decided, but certainly 
Portuguese birds north of the Tagus are not of this 
subspecies.—H. F. W.] 
Agrobates g. galactotes. 1 $ . 
Summer visitor, nesting not uncommonly in the prickly 
pear gardens. First seen 9 May. A pair were noticed on 
17 August feeding young just able to fly. The only record 
of their departure was on 18 September, when one was 
seen at the lighthouse. This was the only occasion on which 
a bird was identified in the beams. It came up wind with 
its tail spread out, rendering recognition easy, swerved at 
the last moment and struck the dark tower above the lantern 
hard, knocking out a cloud of feathers ; unfortunately it 
could not be found afterwards. Nestlings examined were 
black-skinned with no down, inside the mouth orange-yellow ; 
flanges white ; no tongue spots. 
Locustella n. nsevia. Id; 1 ? 
Twice obtained on autumn migration. First on 14 Sep¬ 
tember on the banks of the stream behind Algeciras : the 
second among dry palmetto scrub on 12 October. 
Cettia cetti. 
Seen and heard close to Algeciras on the banks of Rio de 
Miel, but no specimen obtained. 
