1890.] ON WILD SHEEP AND ANTELOPE OF ALGERIA. .361 



Two letters were read addressed to the Secretary by Dr. Emin 

 Pasha, C.M.Z.S., dated Bagamoyo, March 1890, announcing that 

 he had forwarded certain zoological specimens for the Society's 

 acceptance. Amongst them was an example of Anomaliirus orien- 

 talis, Peters, from Monda, in the Nguru Mountains, and one of 

 Rhynchocyon petersi from Mandera. 



Mr. Henry Seebohm exhibited a specimen of the Eastern Turtle- 

 Dove {Turtvr orientalis), which had been sent to him by i\Ir. James 

 Backhouse, jr., of York, with a letter stating that it had been shot on 

 the 23rd of October last at a place commonly known as Nab Gutter, 

 a small stream running from Oliver's Mount near Scarborough down 

 to the sea. It flew very swiftly and was pursued by a number of 

 small birds. A Ked-breasted Flycatcher (Muscicapa parva) was 

 shot in the same locality on the same day. This example of the 

 Eastern Turtle-Dove is in tbe plumage of the first autumn, without 

 the pied patch on each side of the neck. The Oriental Turtle- 

 Dove, in its t\ pical form, with the axillaries, under tail-coverts, and 

 the tips of most of tbe tail-feathers bluish grey, bred in South- 

 east Siberia, China, and Japan, as well as in the hilly part of India. 

 It was not known to have previously occurred in the British Islands, 

 but it had twice been recorded, both times in immature plumage, 

 in the north of Scandinavia. 



Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell, F.Z.S., read the first of a series of papers 

 entitled "Contributions to our Knowledge of the Antipatharian 

 Corals." The present communication contained the description of 

 a particularly fine example of the Black Coral of the Mediterranean 

 {Gerardia lamarcki), and an account of a very remarkable Antipathid 

 from the neighbourhood of the island of Mauritius, which it was 

 proposed to call Antipathes robillardi. 



This Memoir will be published in the Society's ' Transactions.' 



The following papers were read : — 



1. Notes on the Wild Sheep and Mountain- Antelope of 

 Algeria. By E. N. Buxton \ 



[Eeceived March 31, 1890.] 



During a shooting-excursion into the Algerian Atlas in 1890, I 

 obtained specimens of the Wild Sheep and the Mountain-Gazelle, of 

 which the mounted heads are now exhibited. 



My expedition was undertaken in January and February of the 

 present year. The Djebel Metlili overlooking El Kantera, a station 

 on the Biskra railway, was the first range I tried for Wild Sheep. I 

 was advised by naturalists at home that the extension of the railway 

 to this point would certainly have driven them further afield. It so 



1 Communicated by P. L. Sckter, M.A., Ph.D., F.E.S. 



