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§ 3228. One.—Algeria. From M. Parzudaki, 1858. 
M. Parzudaki gave me no particulars, but the egg agrees with the 
two in Mr. Tristram’s sale of which I bought one [§ 3227]. 
[§ 3229. One.—Ain Boudjirah, Algeria, June, 1856. From 
Mr. Tristram. | 
[§ 8230. Four.—Laghouat, Algeria, April, 1870. From 
Mid. HH. Guroey, jun: 
Writing to me with these eggs Mr. Gurney says: “I send four Houbaras’ eggs, 
which were brought to me in the yelk at Laghouat by Arabs last April.” This 
kind gift is also mentioned by Mr. Gurney in his paper “On the Ornithology 
of Algeria ”’ (Ibis, 1871, p. 296). ] 
[§ 3231. Zen—Fuertaventura, Canary Islands, 1889. From 
Seflor Gomez, through Mr. Dresser. 
Two of these are marked as being from the same nest. Mr. Meade-Waldo 
mentions (Ibis, 1889, pp. 9-12) the abundance of this bird in this island 
where its eggs are easy to find and are taken by the people for food. | 
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HOUBARA MACQUEENI (J. E. Gray). 
[§ 3232. One—Tel Yacoob, Mosul, 21 May, 1860. From 
Mr. Christian A. Rassam, 1861. 
Proe. Zool. Soc. 1861, p. 397, pl. xxxi. fig. 5. 
The circumstances which led to my possessing this egg, which was found by 
oo) 
Mansoor Saigho, have been already related (§ 3210). It is figured as above. | 
[§ 3233. One.—Desert north of Saissan Nor, 4 June, 1876. 
“* Female killed on nest.” From Dr. Finsch, 1875. 
Given to me in London by Dr. Finsch, being one of the very few eggs he 
obtained on his recent Siberian journey with Dr. A. E. Brehm. Te had a pair 
of them in the very box, he said, in which he had brought them from Siberia, 
and he kindly gave me my choice ; but there was little difference between them. 
In my presence he wrote down the particulars of the locality, which was 
in the desert on the north of the Saissan Nor between the lake and the Altai 
Mountains. Ife said there was not the least doubt of the bird being the true 
