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Cisticola schceiiicola, Bp. — To be seen in the desert everywhere, 

 in barley-fields round about the oases : more rarely one finds them 

 in the heights of the mountainous country, as well as in the grassy 

 tracts of low land. 



Cetlia sericea, Bp. — We found them among reeds on Lake Fez- 

 zara, in the desert, in thick bushes lying close to water even in the 

 oases near Seggien. These birds are fond of hiding themselves: 

 they sing the whole winter through. 



Lusciniopsis Savii, Bp. — We killed one on the 26th of March, 

 and saw some more among the reeds on a lake between Batna and 

 Constantine. 



Calamodyte phragmitis, Bp. — We came across some of these 

 birds on the 28th of March on a marsh in the last-named locality. 



Phyllopiieusle trochilus, Bp. — Common everywhere all through 

 the winter. 



P. rufa, Bp. — Much rarer. 



Regulus igiiicapUlus, Brehm. — Common everywhere in the 

 forests. 



Melizophilus provincialis, Bp. — Common in the Tell and in 

 the desert. 



Pyrophthalma sarda, Bp. — Count Constantin Branicki killed a 

 male bird near Batna at the end of December. 



P. melanocephala, Bp. — The commonest of the Sylviadae in the 

 whole country : these birds sing during the winter. 



Sylvia curruca, lialh. — From after March 1 met with this bird 

 here and there in Biskra. 



S. cinerea, Lath. — Made its appearance at the same time as the 

 foregoing species. 



S. conspicillala, Marmora. — Not uncommon all through the 

 winter on bushes in the desert. 



S. leucopogon, Meyer. — Common on heights contiguous to the 

 desert, in valleys which here and there are grown over with 

 grass and rushes : we met with it also in small bushes in the 

 desert. 



Rubecula faiiiiliaris, Blyth. — I saw these birds only once or 

 twice in the mountainous country : during our return voyage, in the 

 middle of April, one alighted on our ship, and remained lor some 

 hours on the rigging. 



Philomela luscinia, Bp. — We met with a single individual, in 

 Bouarif, in the month of January. 



