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[Ibis, 
Captain P. W. Munn on the 
100. Micropus melba. Alpine Swift. 
I saw several of this species in the company of common 
Swifts, flying over the Albufera on l April, 1920, and they 
appeared to be making for the mountains in the north of the 
island. 
Observed by v. Jordans. 
101. Micropus murinus illyricus. Mouse-coloured Swift. 
Obtained by v. Jordans and Witherby. Probably breeds; 
but among the hundreds of M. apus seen at Palma and in 
other places I have not yet observed this species. 
102. Caprimulgus europseus. Nightjar. 
A summer visitor, arriving at the beginning of May, but 
not very common. Whilst standing on the balcony of the 
inn at Puerto Alcudia in the evening of 11 May, 1921, one 
of these birds swept close past me up the village quay. I 
flushed a pair in the woods near San Luis on 13 May, 1921, 
and a single bird in the pine-woods on the shore on 21 Yay, 
1921. One was caught in, some fishing-nets, in the summer 
of 1920, hung up to dry in Puerto Alcudia; the species has 
also been noticed near Palma. 
Included in v. Jordans' list on Barcelo’s authority, and 
from a stuffed specimen seen in Arta. 
103. Merops apiaster. Bee-eater. 
To anyone acquainted with the summer birds of Spain, the 
merry Bee-eaters are the most noticeable absentees from 
Majorca. I have only seen one party, which was migrating 
northwards, on 26 April, 1920, above the pine-woods near 
the shore of Alcudia Bay. I have looked for them in vain 
in other parts of the island, but have seen no others, so con¬ 
clude they do not stay in Majorca and are only stragglers 
on migration. 
Yon Jordans obtained a specimen that had been shot near 
Arta in 1912, and quotes Homeyer and Barcelo as authorities 
for its occurrence. 
