60 RAMBLES OF A NATURALIST, 
Cinereous Shearwaters in the bay in three days. One of 
these—the specimen figured by Dr. Bree in his “ Birds of 
Europe ”—through his kindness now enriches my collection. 
In addition to these I saw the Cream-coloured Courser 
(Cursorius gallicus), as I firmly believe, running and flying 
before the heads of our mules in the Tibrem country ; Manx 
Shearwaters (as already mentioned) when I went by sea 
from Oran to Algiers; and Kites so often in the course of 
my wanderings, that I think I may at least include Mil/ous 
ictinus and M. migrans. Skins of the Greater Spotted 
Cuckoo (Cuculus glandarius), and Cisalpine Sparrow (Passer 
cisalpinus) I bought in Algiers before I went into the 
interior, which had been killed in the vicinity. Jays (Gar- 
rulus cervicalis, Bp.*) I often saw in cages, though never 
wild, and once a dainty Stilt (Himantopus candidus) shut 
up in a rabbit-hutch at Laghouat, and fed by Zouave soldiers 
on bread, meat, fish, insects, and rice: At the same place 
two Lanner Falcons (Falco lanarius), taken young from 
the nest, were offered to me. I bought one, and on my 
return to England deposited it in the Zoological Gardens, 
but it only lived three years, probably owing to the pernicious 
habit of feeding it on butcher's meat, instead of rats and 
rabbits. 
Including all the above (except the Stormy Petrel), and 
deducting Dromolwa leucocephala as not a good species, the 
total number of birds identified by me in four months was 
152. I refrain from including the Lammergayer, though 
often in the Atlas I saw large birds of prey which I should 
think could scarcely have been anything else, neither do I 
* Mr. Dresser states in his “Birds of Europe” that I saw the Jay 
at Tibrem and Medea, but there he slightly misquotes me. It was the 
Moorish Magpie, not the Jay, which I saw at those places. The eye in 
G. cervicalis is exactly the bluish colour of the British Jay’s, with an 
inner ring of brown. 
