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typical species at El-Golea iu the south-western Sahara at 

 the end of March, aud as late as the 5th of June in tlie 

 Oued Nca (Nov. Zool. xx. 1913, p. 57). It was common 

 on migration in Algeria, being frequently met with from 

 El Kantara to Touggourt during the last week in March 

 and on tlie 6th and 10th of April at Laghouat. On the east 

 coast of Africa the Redstart appears to migrate south as far 

 as 10° N. A specimen in the British Museum from Foda 

 (Anglo-Egyptian Sudan) was obtained on 21 October. 1885. 



Phcenicurus ochrurus gibraltariensis *. Black Redstart. 

 (= liaticilla titys auctorum.) 



Motacilla gibraltariensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. pt. 2, 1789, 

 p. 987— Type locality : Gibraltar. 



The Black Redstart appears to be a regular Bird of Passage 

 in small numbers to the islands in spring and autumn. It' is 

 recorded from Tenerife and Fuerteventura. Meade- Waldo 

 considered it to be rather more frequent in the Canaries than 

 the Common Redstart (Ibis, 1893, p, 188). He remarks 

 that he examined a stuffed specimen in Cabrera^s collection 

 (Ibis, 1889, p. 515). 



Cabrera obtained it in Tenerife near Laguna, and believed 

 it to be an accidental migrant in sprino- (Catiilogo, p. 43). 

 This specimen was examined in the Cabrera collection by 

 Hartert, who tells me it is certainly P. o. gibraltariensis. 



Polatzek believed it to be a regular bird of passage and 

 observed it twice in the eastern islands (Orn. Jahrb. 1909, 

 p. 124). 



Von Thanuei' also obtained it in the eastern islands of the 

 group and records a male which he shot in Fuerteventura on 

 the 5th of February, 1910 (Orn. Jahrb. 1910, p. 229), and 



* This is auotlier of tlie very few cases of nomenclature where 

 1 do not follow tlie Committee of the * B. 0. U. List of British 

 ]iirds,' '2nf\. ed. 1915, in retaining the name P. titys for the Black 

 Iiedstart {vide B. O. U. List, p. 366, where the reasons given for con- 

 serving the name titys are to my mind most unsatisfactory). I prefer 

 to follow Messrs. Hartert, Witherby, and Ticehurst iu their decision 

 {' Hand-list of British Birds,' I'Jll', p. 8o). 



