204 Mr. E. G. 13. Meade-Waldo— Bird-Notes 



Eagle and Bonelli's Eagle, and noticed an adult Golden Eagle. 

 There were a few pairs of Sahara Buntings in the village. 



Away from the river, which is here a beautiful clear 

 stream, everything is very dry, all the mountains being 

 apparently waterless. Finding nothing fresh, we struck 

 into another valley running S.E. into the heart of the moun- 

 tains. The track was too bad for pack-animals, so we only 

 took what things we had on us and one very good animal 

 lightly laden. We went up a branch of the Amsmiz river, 

 and eventually got to what was the last hamlet on the north 

 slope, a tiny place of about six huts called Imi Ouern. This 

 was a capital place for insects, but birds were not very 

 numerous. 



On the stream, which we followed up to its source at about 

 8500 feet, we found numbers of what was apparently the 

 Common Dipper (Cinclus aquations) . I caught a neatly full- 

 fledged young bird, which dived all about the bottom of a 

 pool and tried to hide under the stones below; this was on 

 July 12th. Grey Wagtails were numerous on this stream, 

 but, strange to say, I saw no Kingfishers, although they were 

 so common on the Wad Nyfys. 



A very fine mountain which we ascended to the summit 

 was singularly devoid of bird-life, the only birds we saw being 

 Barbary Partridges up to about 12,000 feet, Atlas Shore- 

 Larks up to about the same height, a few Black-eared Chats 

 (Saxicola catarina), and several pairs of Pied Rock-Thrushes 

 (the latter with nearly-fledged young). I saw a pair of 

 Black Redstarts on the summit of this mountain. A Berber 

 shepherd told a most reliable man who was with me that 

 this mountain was called Tizi Gourza ; but a man at Imnen- 

 talla told us, when we pointed to the mountain from a 

 distance, that it was Jebel Ogdimt, which it should be 

 according to Thompson's map. 



From here we went westward again, gradually getting to 

 the foot of the mountains by Tafegar and Anzoot. Between 

 the mountains and Mogador we saw but little of interest 

 ornithologically. There was a large migration of many kinds 

 of the commoner birds always going on to the south, prin- 



