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Captain P. W. Mnnn on the 
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XXXYI .—Notes on the Birds of A lcudia, Majorca. 
By Captain P. W. Munn, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 
(Plate VIII.) 
The following notes were made during a stay in Majorca, 
Balearic Islands, from November 1919 until May 1920, and 
from October 1920 until June 1921. 
I chose as my headquarters the Port of Alcudia, a tiny 
fishing village and port, a mile and a half from the town of 
that name. Here there was a clean and comfortable little 
hostel—the “ Hotel Marina.” Other parts of the island were 
also visited as well as Minorca. 
Puerto Alcudia (see map, PL VIII.) is possibly the most 
likely spot in Majorca for birds—the shores of the beautiful 
bay, the pine-woods, the Albufera and marshes, and the 
crags and cliff's on the peninsula, being apparently ideal 
localities, and the ever-present quantity of water in the 
marshes and streams adjacent, besides a lesser area of 
cultivated land than in other parts, make it more attractive. 
The island is, however, a somewhat disappointing place for 
an ornithologist: there are, certainly, a good many birds, 
especially on migration, but comparatively few of any great 
interest, in addition they are unusually wild and shy. Also 
the strenuous work of climbing the rocky hills, when day 
after day nothing new or of interest is seen, takes a lot of 
time with but meagre results. The sandy shores and sand¬ 
banks of the bay are ideal for shore- and sea-birds ; but of 
the former only the Kentish Plover is common, of the latter, 
Gulls are few, and of Terns there are none. The pine-woods 
and the crags and caverns in the hills are most suitable for 
birds of prey, but few are present ; the cliffs on the sea-coast 
should teem with sea-bird life, but they are comparatively 
barren. 
The Bay of Alcudia is fringed, most of the way round next 
the sandy shore, with a belt of sand-dunes of varying width, 
overgrown with beautiful woods of pine, of no great size as 
