Notes on Tunisian Birds. di7 



stones caiight my eye, and there, within a few yards, were 

 three Coursers, the colour of which so exactly matched the 

 surrounding objects that they had even escaped the sharp 

 eyes of my boy, till one of them stretched out its wing over 

 its extended leg. I promptly secured all three of these 

 victims of misplaced confidence, and returned to camp well 

 pleased with myself. These were the first and the last that 

 I met with during the whole trip. 



VII. — Further Notes on Tunisian. Birds. 

 By Joseph I. S. Whitaker, F.Z.S. 



Although prevented from visiting the Regency myself this 

 year, I am nevertheless able to give another short list of some 

 additions to my collection of Tunisian birds, the gi'cater 

 number of which were obtained by Mr. O. V. Aplin during a 

 collecting tour lately made by him in Tunis on my account. 



The list also includes a few species of which specimens 

 have been received from the Tunisian naturalist, M. Blanc, 

 and four others, examples of which were obtained by myself 

 last year, but were inadvertently omitted in my last list 

 (Ibis, 1895, p. 8.-)). 



With regard to Mr. Aplin's journey I need merely say 

 that he started on his travels in January last, going first 

 south from Gabes, towards the Tripoli frontier, and then 

 working round, and gradually travelling north, till he finally 

 reached Ghardimaou in the Tell country, where his collect- 

 ing trip ended about the middle of June. As may be seen 

 from the accompanying map (p. 88), Mr. Aplin got over a 

 good deal of ground, and visited districts not previously worked 

 by myself, or by any of my collectors ; but unfortunately, the 

 season was exceptionally dry, and bird-life in the far south 

 seems to have been more wanting than usual this year, thus 

 accounting for a somewhat disappointing result, so far as that 

 part of Tunis is concerned. At the same time, however, 

 although meeting with but few birds new to my collection, 

 ]\Ir. Aplin came across and secured specimens of several 

 interesting southern species already recorded by me, the 



