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date (W). A Spotted Woodpecker (sp. ?) seen at Aiu 

 Mokra, May 2, 1913 (R). 



106. Jynx torquilla inauritanica Rothsch. Algerian 

 Wryneck. 



A richly coloured bird, undoubtedly of this race^ seen and 

 heard at H. Meskoutine on February 26^ 1906. Also noted 

 on April 6 (W). 



107. Cuculus canorus L. Cuckoo. 



Many calling on the hills near Lambese, April 19 (J). 

 Only noted at Bone (W). Seen several times at Ain 

 Mokra (R). 



[As the Ain Mokra birds were met with in May, they 

 must have belonged to the small Mediterranean form, 

 C. c. minor A. E. Brehm.] 



108. Strix aluco mauritanica (With.). Moorish Brown 

 Owl. 



A young bird, still in down, but with the primaries in 

 quill, which had fallen from the nest in a eucalyptus wood 

 at Ain Mokra, was found on May 8 in the possession of an 

 Arab boy. Iris blue (R). 



109. Bubo l)ul)o ascalaphus Sav. North African Eagle-Owl. 

 My first acqviaintance with this fine species was on 



April 18, 1913, when we came across a single bird perched 

 on the edge of a recess about 20 feet high in the steep rock- 

 wall of a gully in one of the ranges bordering the El Outaia 

 plain. His big yellow eyes were wide open, but he remained 

 still for some minutes before taking wing and flying over- 

 head down the wady. The ledge had evidently been in use 

 for some time, as the ground below was strewn with bones 

 and fragments of pellets. In the following year another 

 bird was flushed from a hole under a big boulder on a steep 

 mountain-side on April 30, but this proved to be only a 

 roosting place and showed no traces of breeding (J). 



