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night I used to see them hovering perpendicularly, with quivering 

 wings and tail brought forward ; and this was the only time at 

 which there was any thing characteristic about their flight. 



94. Passer domesticus (Linn.). Sparrow. 



Neither Dr. Tristram nor Mr. Salvin mentions the Common 

 Sparrow ; but I found it abundant in the Mzab, at Laghouat, 

 and also in the Tell. I cannot say that I ever saw the Cisal- 

 pine, though I examined a great many Sparrows with my tele- 

 scope and in the market at the Place de Chatres in Algiers. 



95. Passer salicicola, Vieill. Spanish Sparrow. 

 I shot ten near Blida. 



96. Fringilla spodiogena, Bp. Algerian Chaffinch. 

 Common. 



97. LiNOTA CANNABiNA (Linn.). Common Linnet. 

 Common. 



98. Serinus hortulorum, Koch. Serin. 



I found the Serin much less common at Blida than at Algiers, 

 where some were seen consorting with Linnets, or singing from 

 the bough of a fir tree, in a low, clear, continuous strain. In 

 winter the notes of two together are like the twittering of a 

 flock of Linnets. Their song being by no means loud, they 

 are much kept as cage-birds. 



99. Carduelis elegans (Steph.). Goldfinch. 



The Goldfinch is quite the commonest bird in many parts of 

 the Tell; it abounds wherever there are thistles. I found a 

 very formidable species of tick on some which I shot at Blida. 



100. CoccoTHRAUSTES VULGARIS, Stcph. Hawfiuch. 

 At Oued el AUeg and Miliana. 



101. Chlorospiza aurantiiventris (Cab.). Algerian 

 Greenfinch. 



I think that though the extremes of C. chloris and C. auran- 

 tiiventris may be widely different, they run into each other so 

 much that it is impossible to draw the line, and that the latter 

 name will have to sink into a synonym. At Miliana, where they 



