676 Captain P. W. Munn on the [Ibis, 
species that he did not himself observe he has added on the 
authority o£ earlier writers. 
Dr. Philip Gosse visited the islands in April 1914 and 
Mr. H. F. Witlierby in June and duly 1919, and to 
both these gentlemen I am indebted for much useful 
information. 
The Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain has kindly furnished me with 
notes on many of the eggs I have collected. 
To my own observations I have added those species 
that I have not myself observed, with the references to the 
above earlier writers, but have preferred to omit any state¬ 
ments made by them which at the present time might be 
misleading. 
Minorca is a still more disappointing island for an ornitho¬ 
logist. There is at Port Mahon an interesting museum in 
the Literary and Scientific Institute, with a collection of 
birds said to have been obtained in the islands, and catalogued 
by Senor Ponseti. About five miles from Port Mahon is a 
series of lakes, called the Albufera, among low scrub-covered 
hills near the sea, which is the most likely spot for birds 
that I saw, and where there were, at the end of March 1920, 
large flocks of Coots, some Mallards, and a few pairs of 
Tufted Duck. In the centre of the island, between Mercadel 
and Ferrarias, the hills are higher and more wooded and the 
country more inviting-looking. Blue Rock-Thrushes were 
plentiful and said to be resident ; Puffinus kuhli and 
P. yelkouan * nest on many parts of the coast of the island 
as well as on the adjacent islets. 
From the position of the islands, midway between the 
coasts of southern Europe and northern Africa, there is 
every probability that other species besides those already 
recorded may be observed on passage ; and the recesses of 
the Albufera and other marshes, and the remoter parts 
of the mountains in Majorca, may yield, perhaps, a few 
more species during the nesting-season. 
* Probably Puffinus p. mauretanicus Lowe, Bull. B. O. C. xli. 1921, 
p. 140. 
