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Swallows and House-Martins were completing their nests 

 at H. Meskoutine in the first week in April. Mr. C. Dixon 

 recorded ('Ibis/ 1882, p. 5G1) these birds as building in 

 the middle of May, and argued that they were late breeders 

 in Algeria. On the other hand, Mr. J. H. Gurney recorded 

 their arrival in Algeria on February 18 and 19, and found 

 House-Martins repairing their nests on Feb. 18 ('Ibis/ 1871. 

 pp. 7 1 & 300). 



Song-Thrushes were exceedingly numerous amongst the 

 wild olive-trees at II. Meskoutine until the beginning of 

 April, when most of them disappeared. So far as I know. 

 there is no record of a Song-Thrush breeding in North 

 Africa. 



XIX. — On the Birds collected by the late W. G. Doggett 

 on the Anglo-derma it Frontier of Uganda. By W. R. 

 Ogilvie-Gkaxt. 



Fkom the notice which appeared in the obituary of ' The Ibis' 

 for 1901 (p. 312) we learnt with regret that Mr. W. G. Doggett, 

 the naturalist attached to the Anglo-German Boundary 

 Commission under Lieut. -Col. C. Delme-Radcliffe, had been 

 drowned by the capsizing of a canoe while attempting to 

 cross the River Kagera, the great western affluent of the 

 Victoria Nyanza. His collections, which have been forwarded 

 to the British Museum, contain about 450 admirably 

 prepared skins, and include examples of two species (Fran- 

 co/inus mulemce and Trichokema radcliffei) new to science, 

 as well as of several species (such as Pyromelana wertheri, 

 Terpsiphone ei?iini 7 Lybius rubrifacies, &c.) not previously 

 represented in the National Collection. 



On looking over the birds sent home I was struck by the 

 almost entire absence of many of the smaller and more 

 interesting Passeres which I had hoped to find, such as the 

 lesser Grass-Warblers (Cisticola, Sylviella, &c), always of 

 especial interest, and I wrote to Col. Delme-Radclift'e, 

 pointing out this deficiency and begging him to request 

 Doggett to pay special attention to these birds. My letter 



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