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5<J. Sylvia melanocephala melanocephala (Gm.)- 



Not rare near Orau (Santa (h-nz, Djebol Monrdjadjo, Cap Falcon), Tlemcen, 

 Lalla Maruia, and Saida. 



51. Sylvia cantillans inornata Tscb. 



\_MotariUn aDilillnitx Pallas, in Vroeg's Cat. rais. Coll. Ois., Aflumbratiuaculi, p. 4 (17G4 — Italy).] 

 Sylvia suhdlpina inoriiala Tschusi, Orn. Jahrh. 1906, p. 141 (North Tunisia). 



Evidently nesting in the woods east of Saida, where an adult male in worn 

 plumage was sliot on May 21. 



52. Sylvia conspicillata conspicillata Terana. 



In little bushes near Ain Sefra on May 10. 



53. Sylvia deserticola Tristr. 



On May 1(1, at an elevation of about 1800 lu., one of us heard a Sijlcia singing 

 in a thick bush of Qiiercus ballota, which, when shot, proved to be a specimen 

 of S. deserticola. In spite of a careful search in that bush, and the one or two little 

 bushes near by, no nest was found, nor could a second s[>ecimen bo discovered. 



54. Agrobates galactotes galactotes (Temm.). 



Here and there observed near Orau, and found breeding in the river-bed and in 

 the plantation at the foot of the dune near Aiu Sefra. 



Clutches of eggs were brought in by boys at Ain Sefra on May and 11, and 

 we found a full clutch of four eggs on May 16. The nest was placed in au Opuntia 

 jdant ("prickly pear"), about 2i ft. from the ground. It was liued with pieces 

 of snake-skin, as usual in nests of ^1. galactotes. Other nests were found among 

 new shoots of poplar trees, near the ground. 



55. Scotocerca inquieta saharae (Loche). 



Rather scarce, on half sandy, half stony ground near Ain Sefra. On May 5 

 fully grown young birds were already flying about with the old ones. The three 

 skins from Ain Sefra are somewhat more brownish than most of those from 

 south of Biskra, but similarly dark ones are before us from south of Biskra and 

 South Tunisia, also from Laghouat (cf Nov. Zool. xviii. p. 511). 



5fi. Cisticola cisticola arquatus (Mull.). 

 Obsei'ved in the plain near the Djebel Khar (east of Oran) on Ajird 14. 



57. Turdus viscivorus deichleri Erl. 

 Observed in the oak-woods of Terni, south of Tlemcen, in April. 



58. Turdus philomelos philomelos Brehm. 

 {Turdus musicus auct., nee Linn. 1758 !) 



A female was shot as late as Ajjril 13 on the sand-dunes near Cap Falcon, west 

 of Oran. 



