. Lord Lilford on birds: being a collection of informal and unpublished writings by the late president of the British Ornithologists' Union. With contributed papers upon falconry and otter hunting, his favourite sports . me blue rock-thrushes. The lizards, whichare shining glossy black above and blue beneath, seem tome to be the same variety of race of Lacerta mtiralis asthat found in Filfla, Malta. The lighthouse men say thatthere are no snakes whatever on the island, and that manybirds kill themselves against the light at passage times. Cahera yune j^th. Fine morning. Just as I went on decka
. Lord Lilford on birds: being a collection of informal and unpublished writings by the late president of the British Ornithologists' Union. With contributed papers upon falconry and otter hunting, his favourite sports . me blue rock-thrushes. The lizards, whichare shining glossy black above and blue beneath, seem tome to be the same variety of race of Lacerta mtiralis asthat found in Filfla, Malta. The lighthouse men say thatthere are no snakes whatever on the island, and that manybirds kill themselves against the light at passage times. Cahera yune j^th. Fine morning. Just as I went on deckat 6 a breeze sprang up from the east-north-east,and we spun away round Cape Salinas to the lee of theisland of Cahera, which is high and precipitous withwood and scrub in many places. At the west of the island, a fine range of weather-worn limestone precipices, we saw very few birds ; a kite,two or three shags, some swifts, herring gulls (one ofwhich was shot), a blue rock-thrush, and a large brownhawk, possibly an osprey, were about all. Saw a beautifulflying fish as we came off to the yacht. I noticed agreat many of the smaller shearwaters at sea, which lookvery dark on the back compared to the others. Saw. MEDITERRANEAN NOTES 1,85 three very large cetaceans out at sea and some stormy-petrels. The few goats we saw on Cahera appeared tobe quite tame. It is said that there are wild goats onthe island. IviZA June ^th. Anchored in the Bay of Iviza. The townof Iviza stands on a rock of the north side of the bay in arather good situation, but looks a poor place. A prettyamphitheatre of hills with fine cultivation in the got away with a breeze from east-south-east; veryheavy sea till we got through the passage between Ivizaand Formentera. Here we found the water perfectlysmooth, and slipped merrily along past Vedra, a highand curiously shaped little island, into the Bay of SanAntonio of Puerto Magus, and brought up about in five fathoms close to the little v
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