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ininiiueraMc tdiuls and f'ro^s, which in May lill the niirht with their ci-oaks and calls, 

 were silent. Winter visitors, especially Sonir-Tlirushes. were extremely nnmerous, 

 and often formed jiart of the meals in the hdtel : Imf Kajrles and Vultures, which 

 we had been told were much luore plentiful in tlir winter, were less frei[uently 

 seen than in May. 



From February I'.l to March 17 we stayed in our (dd iplarters in the Hotel 

 Victoria in Biskra, and made excursions in the neinhbourhood in almost all directions. 

 As usual at this time of the year, Biskra was full of tourists, and amonj: them nut 

 a few lovers of nature and naturalists. In 190s we had the ^ood fortune to find 

 staying in the same hotel with us the veteran African ex])lorer and renowned 

 botanist Professor Schweiiifnrth, and many a pleasant hour was spent in his inter- 

 esting coiujiany. This time some kindred s[iirits were met with in the persons 

 of Messrs. Meade-AValdo and (i. H. Gnrney, jun., who collected insects. 



The home of the DirPER in .\i.(;i;ri.v. 



From March IT to 27 we were again in 101 Kantara, most of onr time being 

 spent in search of Bearded Vultures and (iolden Eagles, and in the unsuccessful 

 hunt for Euc/ilor\pec/ii. From El Kantara we travelled back again to Algiers, which 

 we left by motor-car on Ajiril 1. Dr. Nissen accompanied us again on our journey 

 to the south. Leaving Algiers, we travelled westwards to Blidah, and thence to the 

 picturesque "Gorges de Chifta," where we made a short stop at the restaurant in 

 the " Ruisseau des Singes," where dozens of Monkeys, among them enormous 

 specimens, were seeu, and a few Dippers on the stream some distance upwards. The 

 stream is indeed ideal for Cinclux, which do not seem to be rare at all, though we 

 did not see them anywhere else. In the great town of Medea, renowned for its 

 wines, we had luncheon, und in the afternoon reached l!oghari, I'.m kilometres from 

 Algiers, where we slept. 



liOghari is a jiicturesiiue little place, a few kilometres iVom the lAd fortress of 

 Boghar(the (Jastellniu Mauritanum of the Uomans), and beh)Wthe Arab ami Jewish 

 qnarters. The place is most interesting for a zoologist, lying, so to say, at the foot 



