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THE IBIS. 



FIFTH SERIES. 

 No. XI. JULY 1885. 



XXI. — Winter Notes from Morocco. 

 By Capt. S. G. Reid. 



In December 1884 and January 1885 Capt. Gould (late of 

 the Royal Engineers) and I^ prevented from visiting more 

 promising localities by the certainty or probability of cliolera- 

 quarantine, found ourselves once more in our familiar 

 hunting-grounds in Morocco. During our wanderings in 

 search of sport (which was, unfortunately, very indifferent 

 and much interfered with by bad weather) I made a few notes 

 on the birds met with ; and some of the species being rare, if 

 not previously unrecorded, in Morocco, I have ventured to 

 prepare the following list of them for publication in ' The 

 Ibis.^ 



I fear the number of species included in this list is not 

 very great ; we should doubtless have added a good many 

 more to it if we had not been so engrossed in the pursuit of 

 the Snipe and Ducks. Among the few good things obtained 

 or examined in Olcese's collection at Tangier, I am pleased to 

 be able to record specimens of Rutidlla moussieri, Cyanecula 

 wolfi (found wintering in considerable numbers), Sitta ccesia 

 (not previously recorded), Coccothraustes vulgaris, Fringilla 

 Calebs, Garrulus glandarius x cervicalis (the first Jay obtained 

 in Morocco), Asio otus, and Francolinus bicalcuratus. 



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