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is distinguished by the varying amount of scarlet 

 on the breast. 



205. THE LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER Picus 

 minor, Linnaeus, is a resident in the forest districts 

 of Algeria. Malherbe sought to separate the Al- 

 gerian birds under the name of P. ledouci, but the 

 characters are apparently too trivial. 



206. THE ALGERIAN GREEN WOODPECKER Geci- 

 nus vaillantii (Malherbe), is a resident and widely 

 distributed throughout the forest districts, though 

 nowhere particularly common. I only met with this 

 species in the cedar forests west of Batna, and in 

 the evergreen oak woods between Oued Taga and 

 Lambessa. 



207. THE WRYNECK lynx torquilla, Linnaeus, is 

 locally distributed in Algeria, where it is probably a 

 resident, but many pass through the country on 

 migration after visiting Europe in summer, to win- 

 ter still further to the south. I met with this species 

 at Biskra in May, and Taczanowski at Philippeville 

 on the coast early in April. 



208. IRBY'S RAVEN Corvus tingitanus, Irby, is a 

 resident in Algeria, and very widely and commonly 

 distributed. I met with this Raven, the Algerian 

 representative of the Common Raven, everywhere I 

 went south of Constantine, either in pairs or in small 



