JOTTINGS ABOUT BIRDS. 



I. 

 THE BIRDS OF ALGERIA. 



No portion of the Western Palaearctic region so 

 abounds in ornithological interest, or is so likely 

 to reward research, as that which Dr. Sclater 

 describes as the Cisatlantean sub-region. This 

 sub-region practically consists of Africa north of 

 the Great Desert from Barbary to Morocco, in- 

 cluding the Atlantic islands off the West African 

 coast. Of this wide area I am probably correct in 

 saying that the Algerian portion is the most 

 interesting, and (with Tunis) the most likely to 

 repay careful investigation. The important orni- 

 thological discoveries made of late years in the 

 Atlantic islands by Canon Tristram, Mr. Meade- 

 Waldo, and Dr. Koenig, show how little we really 

 know of this area, and more especially of the 



