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The Hon. W. Rothschild gave a brief account of his 

 recent expedition to Algeria. He also exhibited specimens 

 of the three Algerian forms of Garrulus and made the 

 following remarks : — 



" Most authors have recognised one Jay only from Algeria, 

 viz., Garrulus glandarius cervicalis Bonap., while a few others 

 have mentioned G. g. minor Verr. There are, however, 

 three very distinct forms to be found there, all of which I 

 exhibit to-night together with the eggs of one of them : 



" Garrulus glandarius cervicalis Bonap. is the most 

 abundant and widespread race ; it occurs in the Northern 

 Atlas Range and in the forests north of the latter in the 

 province of Alger, and throughout the province of Con- 

 stantine as far south as the Aures Mountains, wherever 

 suitable forest is found. 



" Garrulus g. whitareri Hartert. — This Jay was origi- 

 nally described from Tangier, but was discovered by us last 

 year in the oak-forests near Tlemcen in the Province of Oran 

 in Western Algeria. Its position appears to be intermediate 

 between G. g. cervicalis and G. c. minor. The specimen 

 {ex coll. Lefevre) referred to G. minor in the ' Catalogue of 

 the Birds in the British Museum/ iii. p. 96, belongs to this 

 form. 



" Garrulus g. minor Verr. — This form was described by 

 Verreaux in 1857 from a specimen collected by Capitaine 

 Loche .at Djelfa in Central Algeria, and the bird has not 

 since been recorded from Algeria, though Mr. Whitaker 

 redescribed it as G. cenops from Morocco, whence we have also 

 received a series of specimens collected by Riggenbach. This 

 year Messrs. Hartert and Hilgert spent a few days at Djelfa 

 and succeeded in collecting the pair of birds and the eggs 

 exhibited to-night. It is just fifty-seven years since the type 

 was described. The Algerian specimens are indistinguishable 

 from G. cenops from Morocco, as Dr. Hartert has already 

 suggested." 



