60 RAMBLES OF A NATURALIST. 



Cinereous Shearwaters in the bay in three days. One of 

 these — the specimen figured by Dr. Bree in his " Birds of 

 Europe " — through his kindness now enriches my collection. 

 In addition to these I saw the Cream-coloured Courser 

 (Cursorius galliais), as I firmly believe, running and flying 

 before the heads of our mules in the Tibrem country ; Manx 

 Shearwaters (as already mentioned) when I went by sea 

 from Oran to Algiers ; and Kites so often in the course of 

 my wanderings, that I think I may at least include Milvus 

 ictinns and ]\T. inigrans. Skins of the Greater Spotted 

 Cuckoo (ChchIhs glandarius) , and Cisalpine Sparrow (Passer 

 cisalpinus) I bought in Algiers before I went into the 

 interior, which had been killed in the vicinity. Jays (Gar- 

 rulus ccrvicalis, Bp.*^ I often saw in cages, though never 

 wild, and once a dainty Stilt (Hivia?itopus candidiis) shut 

 up in a rabbit-hutch at Laghouat, and fed by Zouave soldiers 

 on bread, meat, fish, insects, and rice. At the same place 

 two Lanner Falcons (Falco hviariiis), taken young from 

 the nest, were offered to me. I bought one, and on my 

 return to England deposited it in the Zoological Gardens, 

 but it only lived three years, probably owing to the pernicious 

 habit of feeding it on butcher's meat, instead of rats and 

 rabbits. 



Including all the above (except the Stormy Petrel), and 

 deducting Dromolcva Icucocephala as not a good species, the 

 total number of birds identified by me in four months was 

 152. I refrain from including the Lammergayer, though 

 often in the Atlas I saw large birds of prey which I should 

 think could scarcely have been anything else, neither do I 



* Mr. Dresser states in his "Birds of Europe" that I saw the Jay 

 at Tibrem and Medea, but there he shghtly misquotes me. It was the 

 Moorish Magpie, not the Jay, which I saw at those places. The eye in 

 G. cei'vicalis is exactly the bluish colour of the British Jay's, with an 

 inner ring of brown. 



