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Captain P. W. Munn on the 
[Ibis, 
47. Lanins senator. Woodchat. 
Von Jordans obtained specimens. 
48. Lanins senator badius. Corsican Woodchat. 
A common and conspicuous summer visitor, whose extra¬ 
ordinary variety of notes is most confusing to the naturalist. 
The earliest arrival was noticed on 30 March, 1921, but one 
of their “larders” was found on 1 April, 1920—several 
beetles and other insects impaled on the thorns of a pome¬ 
granate bush on the edge of the Albufera. The first nest 
was taken on 26 April, 1920, and these were invariably 
built among the ends of the lower branches of small pine- 
trees. Two nests I found in a row of scattered pine-trees 
near the shore were not 100 yards apart. There is little 
attempt at concealment, and the bird sits closely. The 
nests are bulky, strongly-made structures, composed exter¬ 
nally of pieces of an aromatic plant with the yellow blossoms 
attached, and lined with grass, cotton-grass blossoms, a few 
feathers, and odds and ends of paper, fibre, etc. Five hand¬ 
some evenly-marked eggs are usually laid, of a pale greyish- 
white ground-colour zoned with brown, and grey blotches 
and spots of varying shades at the larger end. I only 
noticed this species on the low ground ; it did not appear to 
frequent the hills. 
Obtained by v. Jordans. 
49. Lanius meridionalis. Southern Great Grey Shrike. 
Von Jordans includes this in his list on the strength of a 
specimen in the Instituto Balear in Palma. 
50. Sylvia communis. Whitethroat. 
A summer visitor, arriving in April, but not common. 
Obtained by v. Jordans. 
51. Sylvia curruca Lesser Whitethroat. 
Gosse observed a"specimen at Alcudia on 7 April, 1914. 
52. Sylvia simplex. Garden-Warbler. 
A summer visitor, but not common. I saw the first on 
19 March, 1920. 
Not observed by v. Jordans, who quotes Homeyer. 
