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Mr. Henry Seebohm on the 
75. Pelican. (P elec anus onocrotalus.) 
One shot on the 1st of June, 1883 : a regular visitant in 
May, when several were seen. A skin was sent to Mr. 
Hume. 
76. Cormorant. (Phalacrocorax , sp. inc.) 
A brown Cormorant seen in numbers on a detached rock 
below the lighthouse at Marshag. 
Y .—Notes on the Birds of the Upper Engadine. 
By Henry Seebohm. 
It is a long climb from the plains of Lombardy to the valley 
of the Upper Engadine. Lake Como is a little more than a 
thousand feet above the level of the sea; a further climb of 
rather more than fifteen hundred feet brings the traveller to 
Promontogno, and a long two thousand feet more lands him 
at Casaccia, but there is still more than one thousand feet 
of zigzags before the top of the Maloja Pass is reached. The 
new Maloja Hotel is perhaps the finest in Switzerland ; it is 
nearly six thousand feet above the level of the sea, and forms 
a centre of unusual interest. Prom a geographical point of 
view it may be regarded as on the water-parting between the 
Italian and Austrian river-systems (the one leading through 
the Valley of the Po to the Adriatic, and the other through 
that of the Danube to the Black Sea), whilst it is less 
than six miles from the valley of the Rhine, and only about 
sixty miles from the source of the Rhone. To the geologist 
the scarped and scored rocks on the Kulm (the culminating 
point of the pass) and the heaps of gravel and the piles of 
granite boulders point out the course of the ancient glacier, 
now r shrunk back a thousand feet up the Porno valley, with 
little but its moraines to tell the tale of its former greatness. 
The artist may find views, too grand for transference to paper 
or canvas, by ascending any of the smaller spurs of the 
mountains, whence he can look down a couple of thousand 
feet towards Italy, or by passing along the chain of lakes to 
St. Moritz, or by climbing up the icy peak of the Pitz Bernina, 
