698 
[Ibis, 
Captain P. W. Mann on the 
111. Otus scops. Scops Owl. 
Not uncommon. Its monotonous piping note may be 
heard at night in most parts of the district, and indeed in 
most parts of the island, even throughout the winter. I 
have frequently flushed them from the shelter of some tree 
or ruined building, and found one that had been killed by a 
cat outside the walls of Alcudia. 
Included in v. Jordans’ list. 
112. Carine noctua. Little Owl. 
1 have never seen this species, but have heard its cry in 
the neighbourhood of Puerto Alcudia, where one individual 
took up its quarters during the autumn of 1920. 
Included in v. Jordans’ list. 
113. Vultur monachus. Black Vulture. 
The Black Vulture is numerous and resident in all the 
mountainous parts of Majorca, and it is a mystery how these 
great birds find sufficient food ; no doubt they do not live 
entirely on carrion—sickly sheep or young lambs are not 
allowed to die natural deaths in the hills where these vultures 
are numerous. I know of one instance at the Cabo de 
Menorca when five vultures were driven away from a dying 
lamb by some fishermen, who secured the lamb and took it 
home. Two pairs and an odd bird of this species inhabited 
the hills around the Atalaya de Alcudia, and were seen 
almost daily going round their regular beats over the 
hillsides, the Albufera and marshes, and the pine-woods on 
the shore. A favourite perch was the ruined watch-tower 
on the summit of the highest peak. On 14 January, 1920, 
I watched one of these pairs mating; and at the end of 
March both pairs had taken up their nesting- quarters in the 
crags, one pair having selected a cavern in a precipice im¬ 
mediately above the Cabo del Pinar, and the other pair a ledge 
in the sheer rock directly beneath the Atalaya—about a mile 
and a half apart. The odd bird—a young one—had dis¬ 
appeared. On the^Pollensa peninsula they are particularly 
numerous—perhaps the numbers of feral goats there attract 
them ; and one day I saw no less than twelve overhead there. 
