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but since assigned in Dresser’s “Birds of Europe” (Part 
24 and 25, p. 3) to C. albicollis (Vieill). Loche says of it 
in the “Exploration Scientifique,” p. 306— 
“Le cincle plongeur, que nous n’avons rencontré que tres 
accidentellement en Algérie y semble excessivement rare, et il est 
supposable qu'il ne doit y étre que de passage.” 
But M. Germain, at p. 63, says :— 
“Sedentaire—Se recontre sur le cours de l'oued—Anasseur 
(Milianah).” 
On the 16th I caught a green Lizard, about a foot anda 
quarter long, but having nothing to preserve it in, set it at 
liberty. While I was in the “Tell,’* and afterwards in the 
Sahara, I had not much time to attend to anything but 
birds. I however made notes of a Water Tortoise at 
Miliana, of a Weasel (apparently the same as ours), of some 
Bats, and of Foxes in the rocks at Boghari, and of a few 
other things which will be mentioned in the course of my 
narrative. 
On the 17th I took the Diligence to Boumedfa, a village 
stated to contain about 270 inhabitants, (though I should. 
have supposed it much less,) and leaving again on the 18th, 
moved to the fortified town of Miliana. Miliana is a place 
of considerable importance. Its ornithology has been 
worked by Monsieur Germain, but I was not aware of the 
existence of his paper, or I should not have been so much 
surprised at meeting with Ruticilla Moussieri,t a beautiful 
bird of restricted range, which he makes the subject of a 
long note; or at shooting Parus ledoucit (Malh.), figured in 
Sharpe and Dresser’s “Birds of Europe,” and the only 
® The “Tell” is the mountainous country of the Atlas, from the sea 
to the commencement of the Sahara. 
+ In Captain Shelley’s collection I recently noticed a male marked 
“ Blida, 1st of March, 1873.” 
