74; JOTTINGS ABOUT BIRDS. 



bably a few remain to breed in the Atlas, as I met 

 with it there in May at an elevation of 4000 feet at 

 Oued Taga. Taczanowski states that it is rare in 

 the mountains. 



331. The Black Redstart Rut'iciUa titlnjs 

 (Scopoli), is a resident in Algeria, most numerous 

 in winter. The birds that breed in the country 

 resort to the heights of the Atlas for the purpose. 

 I met with it in scattered pairs throughout the 

 Djebel Aures. 



332. The Wheatear Saxicola cenanthe (Lin- 

 nccus), is a winter visitor to Algeria, but not, 

 according to Canon Tristram, going far to the 

 south. It is said that a few remain to breed at 

 high elevations in the Atlas. 



2,'^'^- Seebohm's Chat Saxicola. seebo/inii, Dixon 

 (Frontispiece), is a resident in Algeria, but c'oubtless 

 subject to some local migration from the Atlas to 

 the oases. I discovered this fine species on a small 

 stony plain near Djebel Mahmel, at an elevation of 

 5,500 feet. It must be exceedingly local — as so 

 manv of the Wheatears are in Algeria — as I met 

 with it nowhere else in the country. (Conf. J /-is; 

 1882, p. 563.) 



334. The Desert Wheatear Saxicola deser/i, 

 Temminck, is a resident in Algeria, and one ot the 



