596 Mr. J. I. S. W hi taker on 



Two of the specimens are in fine adult plumage, while the 

 third, which is probahly a last year's bird, shows some 

 immature feathers. No female specimens were obtained, 

 and Mr. Dodson says he met with none, and concluded 

 that the hen birds were on their nests at the time. 



Mr. Dodson met with this rare Chat only in the above- 

 named districts in the Atlas Mts., where he found it by no 

 means common, and always in the most desolate and barren 

 spots. The height of Zarakten and Tilula is apparently about 

 5000 feet above sea-level, or about the same as that of the 

 plateaux of the Djebel Mahmel in Algeria, where Mr. C. Dixon 

 and Dr. Koenig found the species, and this degree of elevation 

 is doubtless a characteristic of the bird's habitat. The range 

 of S. seebohmi probably extends throughout the entire chain 

 of the Atlas Mountains, wherever the above-mentioned 

 altitude is reached; but it appears to be nowhere very abun- 

 dant, at any rate now, although Mr. Dixon found it common 

 on the Djebel Mahmel in 1882. I may here mention that 

 last year I sent a collector to the Djebel Mahmel, in the 

 month of May, with a view to obtaining the nests and eggs 

 of S. seebohmi; biit although my man spent a couple of days 

 on the mountain, he failed to find what I wanted, nor did he 

 even come across the bird itself, the only Chat he found 

 being Sa.vicola aurita, of which species he brought me a nest 

 wnth five eggs and the hen-parent. 



Pratincola rubetra. 



A few skins of J" and ? , from Dukalier and Nzela Swinia 

 in April. 



Pratincola rubicola. 



A large series, ,$ , ? and young, from almost every 

 district visited, with the exception of the Atlas Mountains. 



RUTICILLA PHCENICURUS. 



A male, from El Horush in March. 



RuTICILLA MOUSSIERI. 



A fine series of c? , ? and young, from Amsmiz, Enzel, 

 Zarakten, Tihila, Glaoui, Ras-el-Ain, and Ecru, in May and 

 June. 



