188 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXI, 1914. 



but hardly, if at all, generally paler, only the flanks very pale and the white area 

 of the belly more extended. Considerably lighter than C. c. nana and meadcwahloi. 

 Wing of 12 males 74-76 mm. 



4. Caiduelis cannabina. nana- (Tschnsi). — Madeira. — Very dark, the red fore- 

 head very deep red, the grey of head and neck darker, back dark rufons, red of 

 breast darker than in karterti and med'tterranea, abdomen rather rufescent brownish. 

 Wing of 8 males 74"5-77 mm. 



5. Carduelis cannabina meadeicaldoi (Hart.). — Acanthia cannabina meadewaldoi 

 Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1901. p. 323 : Tenerife.— Bill much larger than in nana, wing 

 longer. Colour dark, about the same as in ('. e. nana, darker than in C. c. canna- 

 bina. Wing of 111 males 76-8M mm. — My description of (?. c. meadeicaldoi 

 appeared on October 5, 1901, while Tschusi's nana was published dnring the first 

 days of September. As the descriptions had much in common, and as I confounded, 

 when writing aliout these forms in 1903, all the birds from N.W. Africa with 

 those from the Canary Islands, I overlooked the differences between the specimens 

 from Madeira and Tenerife, but it is now clear that the differences are well 

 founded. The large bill was pointed out in the original description of C. c. meade- 

 waldoi, as well as the fact that, at that time, the North African race had no 

 name, and that it differed from C. meadewaldoi as well as from the Central 

 European form. — C. cannabina meadewaldoi inhabits the Western Canary Islands, 

 and is replaced by C. cannabina harterti on the Eastern Canary Islands, and 

 by C. c. nana on Madeira. — E. Hartert.] 



10. Serinus canarius serinus (L.). 

 Not rare in gardens and young oak-woods near Oran, also at TIemcen, though 

 not very numerous, and Perregaux. 



11. Erythrospiza githaginea zedlitzi Nenm. 



"Trumpeter Bullfinches" were very common in the neiglibourhood of Ain 

 Sefra, and especially on the stony plain at the foot of Djebel Aissa and up to 

 about 1500 m. on that mountain. 



Many nests were taken from May 3 to 17, containing fresh or incubated 

 eggs in various stages, and during the same time others were found containing 

 small or large young of various sizes. The nests were always on the ground 

 and invariably on the east side under little bushes, mostly of Artemisia herba- 

 alba, sometimes of Ferula. Not a single nest was placed under a stone or in 

 crevices of rocks, but twice we found tliera in the middle between two bushes 

 of Artemisia. They were generally deep down under the little bushes and well 

 hidden, but were easily detected, because the bird flies off the nest when approached. 

 The nests are Iniilt of fibres, grass-stems, rootlets, and hair, sparsely lined with 

 hair, vegetable wool, and rarely with a few feathers. The eggs are from five 

 to six in number, the latter number being fonnd twice. Thej' are sometimes 

 rather pale binish, but generally distinctly blue, when fresh ; the markings are 

 always small and never very numerous. The eggs in one clutch are always of 

 tiie same ground-colour. Our eggs vary in size from 171 x 13-7 to 20-5 x 14-9 mm. 

 The small nestling is thickly covered with cream-coloured down from forehead 

 to nape, on the wings and back, naked on the neck and the whole underside. 



The specimens from Ain Sefra belong to the form zedlitzi, the wings of 

 the males measnring 84*6-89"6 mm. 



