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all F. biar»i?c//!< erhnujeri, and so are those nesting on the rofks of El Kantara ; 

 and probably a Falcoti which sometimes visited Laghonat, to oateh jiigeoiis round 

 the honses, belonged to this form. 



Riggenbach sent ns a clutch of fonr eggs, accompanied by the parent birds, 

 from Morocco. These are lighter and less red than the eggs of F. peregr. 

 punicuH from the same i)lace, and measure 49'5 x 38, 49(5 x ^S'S, 5U'4 x :59"i, and 

 51 X SS'T) mm. 



1(59. Phalacrocorax carbo carbo (L.) 



Cormorants are common on the northern coasts and lakes, but we did not collect 

 any and therefore cannot say to which race they belong. 



Mr. August Oser, however, sent ns a sj)ecimen obtained at Biskra, December I, 

 1908, of Ph. carbo carbo — not, as one might have expected, Ph. carbo maroccaniis 

 (Bull. E.G. Club, xvi. p. 110). The desert is doubtless a most unexpected place 

 for a cormorant ! 



170. Ardea cinerea cinerea L. 



The Grey Heron is not rare in Algeria. The sonthernmost place where we 

 saw it is near Biskra, at Bordj Saada, where the Oued Biskra and Oued Djeddi 

 come close together. 



171. Ardea purpurea purpurea L. 



Appears to be not rare on the Algerian Lakes. We saw it on and received 

 specimens from Lake Fetzara in North Algeria. 



172. Bubulcus lucidus (Raf.). 



Common and resident in Northern Algeria. Great numbers were seen on 

 Lake Fetzara on May 21, 1909, and one shot, while in February 1911 only a few 

 were observed. 



173. Ardeola ralloides ralloides (Scop.) 



Several sj)ecimens were seen in the Oued Biskra in April 1908, and a very hue 

 male shot on April 18. Iris yellow, onter portion of ring more brownish golden 

 yellow. Feet yellowish green, top of toes and lower part of tarsus olive. Upper 

 beak and part of lower blackish horn-brown, rest greyish green ; cere yellowish 

 green. 



174. Ardetta minuta (L.). 



C)n Aijril 2(1, 1008, we funud an adult female sitting iu a mimosa hedge at 

 Biskra, and easily obtained it with a small walking-stick gun. It is said, by Loche, 

 to be resident, while Jlr. Wliitaker knows it, in Tunisia, to be a common spring 

 migrant. 



17o. Nycticorax nycticorax nycticorax (L.). 



Probably jommoii in suitable localities, and met with by Tristram as far sonth 

 as Touggourt. We have received it from the neighbourhood of Hammam 

 Meskoutine, and saw it flying over the station at Batna in the early morning 

 in May. 



170. Ciconia ciconia ciconia (L.). 



White Storks nest in great nnmbers in Algeria, but nowhere are they, as far 

 as our experience goes, so common as in the neighbourhood of and especially iu the 



