28 RAMBLES OF A NATURALIST. 



Specimen they could obtain for their work. The latter 

 is very like our English Coal Tit. 



From M. Germain's list, printed in the " Nouvelles 

 Archives du Museum d'histoire Naturelle," I., p. 59, (Paris) 

 and entitled " Catalogue Raisonne des oiseaux observes 

 dans la subdivision de Milianah," I cull a few remarks on 

 this species : — 



"Commune dans les forets de chenes du Zaccar, des Beni — 

 Menasser et des montagnes de la rive gauche du Chelif. A 

 Milianah, elle descend quelquefois en hiver dans les jardins les 

 plus ele'ves. Partout ou Ton rencontre cette espt;ce, on est certain 

 de trouver le Geai cervical (Garrnhis cervicalis) qui, comme elle, 

 parait ne se rencontre qu'a une altitude determinee, que j'evalue 

 a sept on huit cents metres au dessus du niveau de la mer. Je 

 crois aussi que ces deux especes n'habitent que les regions eleves 

 oil la neige est durable en hiver." 



Of this species also M. Labonysse, in his " Lettre sur les 

 oiseaux de la partie littorale de la province de Constantine,"* 

 says : — • 



" La Mesange Ledoux pratique en terre, dans le foret de 

 I'Edough, un trou de Oiii 15, de profondeur, ou elle etablit son 

 nid. Elle a ete observe'e pour la premiere fois le 16 Avril, 1842." 

 (Annales de Societe' d' Agriculture de Lyon, 1853, p. 15.) 



Another rarity which I got at Miliana was Cetti's 

 Warbler (Ccttia sericca, Natt), a tame little bird which 

 ventured quite up to houses on the outskirts of villages. I 

 found it equally in woods and gardens, but always near a 

 ditch. At Algiers I got one, and at Blida three specimens. 



On the 25th I moved from Miliana to Boufarik, once a 

 mere morass, but now an important place numbering 4,000 

 inhabitants. There are a good many Griffon Vultures near 



* About no species are included, with some notes of considerable 

 interest, besides a short article on domestic birds in this " letter." 



