. Unexplored Spain. Hunting; Natural history. Spring-time in the Marismas 391 [NOTE.^âReferring to the last sentence, our companion, Commander H. Lynes, R N"., writes:â'â All the gulls I saw on Santolalla I am positive were L. ridibundus, and I looked most carefully. The wing-pattern of melanocephalios is very distinct. With the latter I became quite familiar in the Mediterranean in winter, and also saw them in late summer at ; We, nevertheless, leave our own record as above, being confident that such gulls as happened to come within our own view were exclusively of the southe
. Unexplored Spain. Hunting; Natural history. Spring-time in the Marismas 391 [NOTE.^âReferring to the last sentence, our companion, Commander H. Lynes, R N"., writes:â'â All the gulls I saw on Santolalla I am positive were L. ridibundus, and I looked most carefully. The wing-pattern of melanocephalios is very distinct. With the latter I became quite familiar in the Mediterranean in winter, and also saw them in late summer at ; We, nevertheless, leave our own record as above, being confident that such gulls as happened to come within our own view were exclusively of the southern species, with its darker and deeper hood. But the occurrence of our British Black-headed Gull so far south in mid-May is also remarkable. That species, though abundant all winter, has disappeared, as a rule, by the end of March. Our own last note of observing it during the spring in question was on April 1. We may add a further note of having observed hoth species (swimming alongside) on Guadal- quivir, March 12, 1909. The distinction, alike in the depth and darker shade of the " hood " in L. melanocephalus, was unmistakable, even to naked This dry spring not a spoonbill nested in Andalucia. The teeming pajareras, or heronries, at the Rocina de la Madre and in Donana were left lifeless and abandoned. In normal years these are tenanted (as shown in photo at p. 32) by countless multitudes of buff-backed, squacco, and night-herons, glossy ibis, some purple herons, and a few pairs of spoonbills, whose massed nests fairly weigh down the marsh-girt OEPHEAN WAEBLER {Sylvia orphea) Arrives end of April ; hardly so brilliant a songster as its specific title would Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929; Buck, Walter John. joint author. London
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