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Captain P. W. Munn on the [Ibis, 
narrow ridge of mountains, rising to 1300 feet at Fomentor 
and culminating in the cape of that name. 
Cultivated country in this district only extends around the 
towns of Alcudia and Pollensa, behind the Albuferete, on 
the slopes of the lower hills of the peninsulas, and also 
on the northern and western fringes of the Albufera. 
In the cultivated country there is a network of narrow 
lanes shut in with stone walls, and many of these lanes are 
most picturesque. 
The district thoroughly worked and explored is that to the 
east, and seawards, of a line from Pollensa to La Puebla, 
thence to Santa Margarita, and on to the neighbourhood of 
Arta. The observations, I think, may be considered fairly 
applicable to the greater part of the island, with the excep¬ 
tion, perhaps, of the mountainous region of the north; but 
I found that the results in the mountains were so very 
meagre compared with the arduous work necessary to accom¬ 
plish them, that I doubt if it is worth while exploring this 
northern range thoroughly. 
There is a great deal of migration in the island, and 
during November and April especially there were streams 
of common migrants. 
In the neighbourhood of Palma, numbers of birds are 
killed and sold in the market for food during the winter. 
Besides Game-birds, I saw there Thrushes, Redwings, Black¬ 
birds, Starlings, Linnets, Serins, Siskins, Goldfinches, Green¬ 
finches, Chaffinches, Robins ; and fewer Fieldfares, Ring- 
Ouzels, Redstarts, Blackstarts, White Wagtails, Meadow- 
Pipits, and even Sardinian Warblers, Goldcrests, Chiffchaffs, 
and Blackcaps. 
The birds, as a rule, sing little and feebly, the Sardinian 
Warbler and Nightingale being the most noisy, though the 
Blackbird in the spring chimes in. 
I have described rather fully the nests and eggs of some 
of the birds, as it appears that little collecting of the eggs 
of Majorcan birds has hitherto been done. 
The inhabitants are very friendly and courteous, but do 
not take much interest in the doings of the foreigner among 
