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eggs had only been incubated for a few days, but the breeding 

 season is evidently somewhat variable, as we also found young 

 in a nest on Djebel Mellah, in the plain of El Outaia, on 

 April 20, and took a clutch of two much incubated eggs 

 on April 18. Most birds in this district, however, seem to 

 lay about the third week in April (J). Abundant in Aures 

 range : flocks of nine and eleven seen on snow-covered fields 

 in February. A nest seen in a pine above a cliff on Djebel 

 Azrak (W). Not common near Lac Fetzara, only a pair or 

 two seen (R). 



2. Coloeus monedula cirtensis Hart. & Rothscli. Algerian 

 Jackdaw. 



A common resident in the gorge of the Rummel at 

 Constantine (J ; W). 



3. Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax (L.). Chough. 



Met with in some numbers on the precipitous sides of 

 Djebel Metlili, near El Kantara, but the breeding places 

 were inaccessible (J). Flock of twenty close to El Kantara 

 on Feb. 12 ; also noted at Tilatou : while in the clefts of 

 the limestone rocks in the Taya gorge they were numerous 

 in March 1906 (W). 



4. Garrulus glandarius cervicalis Bp. Algerian Jay. 

 Several Jays were seen in the cork-oak forests at Gerst 



Tobeiga, west of Lac Fetzara. In the woods above Batua 

 and Lambese they were tolerably common. A clutch of 

 three eggs was found in an ilex on April 28, while a second 

 nest was still empty on May 2 (J) . Only met with in Taya 

 cork-oakforest, Aprils, 1911 (W). 



5. Pica pica mauritanica Malh. Moorish Magpie. 

 Tolerably common in the ilex scrub, which clothes the 



foothills of the Aures range near Lambese, but somewhat 

 local, and nesting in colonies, several pairs breeding within 

 a short distance of one another. The nests are almost 

 invariably placed in ilex bushes generally at a height of 

 about five feet from the ground, though on one occasion 

 we found a nest at nine feet. They are extraordinarily 



