1920.] of tlie Mar ocean"- Middle- Atlas.''' 265 



traverses, to Tiinoudit iind hack, and the two days^ trial trip 

 to Ain Leuh ; and they leave me confident that the territory 

 explored was tlioroiiohly representative ot" the northern 

 parts o£ the Middle- At his as far to tl:e eastward and west- 

 ward of Azrou as the vegetation and physical features 

 remain similar, also that, with the exception of Owls, my 

 observations and collections fairly gauged the Resident and 

 Summer bird po{)ulation. 



I cannot close tins "Itinerary'* without recording" my 

 grateful thanks to Messrs. Ral>ino and Selous, of H.]\[. Con- 

 sular Service, and to Lieutenant Poznanski, who, in addition 

 to those gentlemen already mentioned and many whose 

 names would make a very long list, so generously gave their 

 a»gis and help to my })lans ; nor caul ever forget the 

 hos{)itality and interest in my Avork of General Bertram!, 

 commanding at Mekuez, and his staff. 



It was indeed delightful, wherever I went in Marocco, to 

 breathe again the atmosphere of French " bon camaraderie/' 

 that remains one of my ha])piest remembrances of Dunkerque 

 and the War. 



PA15T II. 



TuK "Middle-Atlas." 

 (Attention is invited to the maps in Plates XL and XIL) 



Osving to the hostility of its Berber inhabitants, who never 

 in past days recognised the authority of the Sultan, and 

 even now, that of the French only on their fringes, the 

 Lesser-Atlas and Eastern Great-Atlas mountains have re- 

 mained almost unknown to Natural Science \\\) to the present 

 day, while the rest of French Marocco has been either 

 "skiunned" or comparatively well worked. 



The RifF Chain, which covers practically the whole of 

 Spanish Marocco excej)t a coastal strip, is equally unexplored, 

 but differs from the French zone in that it seems likely long- 

 to remain so, unless some naturalist gets on the soft side of 

 Raisuli and the other Rifiian Sheiks. 



During the eight years of French control much has been 



