1921 .] On the Winter Avifauna of the Camargue. 
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XXXII .—Some Notes on the Winter Avifauna of the 
Camargue. By Ludlow Griscom, M.A.O.CJ., M.B.O.U. ; 
American Museum ofc‘ Natural History, New York City. 
For a region which has long been famous as a bird 
paradise, remarkably little has been written about the 
Camargue, due in part perhaps to its comparative isolation 
and the primitive living conditions required in so dreary and 
uninhabited a waste. The classic work on this region is the 
* Ornithologie du Gard et des Pays circonvoisins 3 by 
J. Crespon, a rare work published by private subscription in 
1840, a copy of which I was so fortunate as to obtain in 
Paris and took with me. It is remarkable for its excellent 
detailed accounts of habits and occurrence of the various 
species, founded on many years of personal collecting. Two 
other works appeared shortly thereafter—‘ Faune Meridio- 
nale du Midi de la France 3 (Crespon, 1844), an elaboration, 
chiefly territorial, of his earlier work; and the ‘ liichesses 
Ornithologiques du Midi de la France’ (Jaubert and Barth- 
elemy-Lapommeraye, 1859), The latter work is chiefly of 
value for its information about the bird-life of Marseilles and 
the Riviera, being almost entirely a compilation so far as the 
Camargue is concerned. Crespon’s original work is not 
quoted by them, oddly enough. In 4 The Ibis * for April 
1895 and October 1898, Mr. W 111 . Eagle Clarke published 
two very interesting and valuable papers on this region, 
based on visits in May and early June, 1894, and part of 
September, 1896. The first paper contained a map and so 
excellent and adequate an account of the topography of the 
region, that repetition would be useless, and readers are 
referred to it for information on these points. 
I have wandered for many years in Europe with an 
increasing determination to visit the Camargue. Twice I 
had been in Arles, but was absolutely unable to find the time 
for the briefest kind of a side-trip. While with the 
American Expeditionary Forces in 1918, a conversation 
