[Oenauthe oenanthe leucorrhoa rGni.). 



Cf. Nov. Znul xviii. p. hlX 



Once, ou April 10, when out witli a biittcrHy-iiet to catch I'ierix and EucMoe, 

 1 saw a strikingly liright-coloiired male with iin almost |iink chest and of great 

 size ; close by were two 0. o. ni'iniiithe, anil tiu' bird was ignite taiue. I returned 

 soon after with a gun, bnt could not find tlie bird again. 1 do not jiesitate to say 

 that the ))ii-d must have been a specimen of i). o. IcxcorrluKi^ 



55. Oenanthe deserti homochroa (Tristr.). 



{■Sauicola ilrsi-rti auct.) 

 Cf. Nov. Hunt, .xviii. \>. i)lb. 



Ill Eastern Algeria we found the Desert Wheatear not rare as far south as 

 Ngoussa, north of Ouarghi ; a few were seen south of Ouargla, March 14, and in 

 the "daya bou-Ziane," April 1 ; in the Mzab country it was observed 5t) to 60 km. 

 south of GhardaVa and oast of that town, but it was coinnioner in the ]ilaiii of 

 El-Arich and from El-Alia to Touggourt. 



On June 11 some old birds were alreaily ninulting, while others liad not yet 

 begun their moult. 



5(1. *Oenanthe hispanica xanthomelaena (Ilempr. it Ehr.\ 



(Sil.iicold " (lllljlliiloird " auct.) 

 Cf. Nov. Zool. xvUi. p. 516. 



On March 20 and 2" common at El-Golea. A great many were seen on the 

 28th, but we were then already busy with arrangements for our departure soutli- 

 wards, and shot none. The number of migrants seen during these days was so 

 enormous that it was imjiossilile to get series of each species, and we had to be 

 content with samples of each ; thus it came about that only three males were shot 

 and skinned, which are all three xnnthniiifldenn, I>ut two or three seen in the hands 

 of boys, with throats cut or ipiills pulled out, were of the same form. 



Several 0. hinpanica were seen, bnt not collected, in the Sonthern Oiied Mya 



during the second week of April, and one in the Oned Saret on April 3; whether 



they belonged to the eastern or western form {( >. Ii. j:antlmmel<ienaov O.li. Iiispunicu) 



I could not say. 



57. Oenanthe moesta (Licht.). 



{■S'ljricola moesta anct.) 

 Cf. Nov. Zool. xviii. p. .516. 



Again, as in 1009, we found this species by no means rare south of Biskra, 

 from north of Chegga to Tamerna, north of Tonggoart, bnt we never saw one south 

 of that town. 



On our journey from Ghardaia to Touggourt we came across a pair with young 

 on June 2, 25 km. east of Ghardaia. 



58. Oenanthe lugens halophila (Tristr.). 



{!ia.cicol(i liu/ens lialophila.) 

 Cf. Xor. Zool. xviii. p. 517. 



Though occasionally seen along the edges of the sebchas and chotts, the chief 

 haunting-places of thife Chat are bare hills with clayey slopes, but not rocks, though 

 we have also seen it in the hammada south of Ghardaia. 



