1 66 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS. 



Malta ; but, though often seen in the valleys 

 and by roadsides in the neighbourhood of trees, 

 it is not so numerous in the island as M.grisola. 

 Mr. O. Salvin found the Pied Flycatcher not 

 uncommon about Souk Harras in the Eastern 

 Atlas, and Mr. Tyrrwhitt Drake saw it during 

 the spring migration in Tangier and Eastern 

 Morocco. A specimen from the River Gambia 

 is in the collection of Mr. R. B. Sharpe. Mr. 

 J. H. Gurney, jun., during a recent tour in Al- 

 geria, encountered this amongst other familiar 

 birds. He says (" Ibis," 1871, p. 76) : "It was 

 not until April that I saw this species, after 

 which it became common. In the dayats and in 

 the Gardaia, where they most abounded, the 

 proportion of adult males in full summer plu- 

 mage to young birds and females was as one to 

 five. They looked exceedingly picturesque in 

 the rich foliage of the oases, clinging perhaps to 

 a rough palm stem, though their more usual 

 perch was the upper bough of a bush, whence 

 they would dart off after passing flies." To this 

 I may add that the note frequently repeated is 



