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had been obtained in that country. On searching I found 

 it at once. It is a young specimen which I got, through 

 Mr. Blanc's kindness, about two years ago, and was labelled 

 by him as a " Limner/' October 1907, from Djebel Batteria 

 in North Tunisia. 



Its description is as follows : — 



Upper parts generally dark brown, some of the feathers 

 slightly shaded with greyish and with pale rufous edges, 

 which are more conspicuous on the feathers of shoulders, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts; quills dark brown, partly 

 margined with huffy white towards the tip and barred with 

 white on the inner webs ; tail greyish brown, middle feathers 

 almost uniform, the lateral ones marked with buffy-white 

 oval spots on the outer web, which are rather more oval on 

 the inner ; head and nape buft'y white, with blackish central 

 streaks to the feathers ; cheek-stripe brown, very con- 

 spicuous ; chin white ; under surface white, with numerous 

 and broad stripes of dark brown, under wing-coverts brown 

 in the centre of the feathers, with broad white margins ; 

 cere and legs pale blue-grey ; iris brown. 



Culmen 32 mm. ; wing 390 ; tail 260 ; tarsus 60. 



I have no doubt as to the identity of the bird, but, in 

 the bibliography quoted, I was unable to find any infor- 

 mation relative to the presence of the Saker in Tunisia. 



I am, Sirs, yours &c, 

 Ca' Oddo (Padua), Count E. Akkigoni Degli Oddi. 



October 4th, 1909. 



Sirs, — May I be permitted to offer a few remarks on 

 Mr. J. A. Bucknill's interesting paper on the Ornithology 

 of Cyprus in your lait number? 



The name of the collector who furnished the material for 

 Ilerr A. M tiller's paper in the Journ. f. Ornith. for 1870 

 (p. 385) is Herr Gustav Schroder. He is still living, but is 

 no longer resident in Cyprus (p. 576). 



Mr. Bucknill is mistaken in supposing that the eggs of 

 Sylvia melanothorax are still unknown, for Glaszner sent at 



