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Dr. Ernst Harrert described three new subspecies of 
birds as follows :— 
Sylvia deserticola maroccana, subsp. nov. 
Differs from S. deserticola deserticola in both sexes by 
having the cinnamon-rufous edges to the inner secondaries 
. narrower ; while they occupy about half the outer web, and 
sometimes more in S. d. deserticola, they are only narrow 
borders in the new subspecies. Also the longer upper wing- 
coverts have much narrower rufous edges. The outer tail- 
feathers, instead of having the whole outer web and a large 
portion of the inner white, have only the outer edge white 
and a brownish-white wedge on the inner web. 
Hab. High Atlas of Western Marocco. 
Type. 3 ad. Seksawa, Western Atlas, 27.11.1906. No. 
1730, F. W. Riggenbach coll. In the Trmg Museum. 
There is also a female in the British Museum, collected 
by Mr. Meade-Waldo, 4. vii. 1901, at Tsauritz Entsagautz 
in the Maroccan Atlas; on the label it has been justly 
queried as belonging to S. deseriicola in Mr. Ogilvie-Grant’s 
handwriting. S. d. deserticola is known from the Hauts 
Plateaux and southern slopes of the Atlas in Tunisia and 
Algeria, where I shot it as far west as Djebel Mekter, in West 
Algeria. S. d. maroccana ‘‘abounds” in the Maroccan 
Atlas above the forest up to 9000 feet, according to Mr. 
Meade-Waldo, but he collected only one female. 
Ardea cinerea firasa, subsp. nov. 
Like A. cinerea cinerea, but bill thicker and longer, legs 
considerably longer. Culmen from end of frontal feathering 
140-142 mm.; wing 460-474; tarsus 180-186. In JA.c. 
cinerea the wings measure 445-478 mm. ; culmen 119-126; 
tarsus 144-170. 
Type. {? 2.) Antinosy country, S.W. Madagascar. Col- 
lected by Last. In the Tring Museum. 
Hab. Madagascar, where it nests and is said to be common, 
and evidently Aldabra, probably Comoro Islands (Mayotte), 
and Amirante Islands. 
