Tawny Pipit.—Plentiful, scattered in pairs over the arid hills: males singing tree-pipit fashion, soaring downwards with tail spread overhead.
Great, Blue, and Cole-tits.—Common, the latter only among the open woods of pine (Pinus pinaster).
Raven and Chough.—A few.
Hoopoe, Kestrel, and Little Owl.—A few.
Partridge (redleg).—Scarce: a pair and a single bird observed at 8000 feet among snow-patches and junipers.
Chaffinches and Serins.—First broods on wing, end April; nests for second broods building early in May.
Linnets.—Common up to scrub-limit.
Dippers.—Observed on Genil, Darro, Monachil, and all the rivers visited.
Pied Flycatcher.—A male observed on migration, April 30.
In the stupendous rock-gorges which enclose the lower course and outlet of Monachil (3500-5000 feet) are situate the breeding-places of the few griffon-vultures which inhabit this sierra. With them nest some Neophrons, and there is a “Choughery” at 4000 feet, while crag-martins and blackchats (not observed elsewhere), with many blue thrushes, find a congenial home among these giant crags.