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between the chateaux of Andlau and Spesbourg (near Barr). An old male was killed in May 

 1849 at Andlau itself; a young one of the same sex in September at the Robertsau, near 

 Strasbourg." According to Degland and Gerbe it is found in the south of France, the Pyrenees. 

 Dauphine, Franche-Comte, and in Switzerland ; and MM. Jaubert and Barthelemy Lapom- 

 meraye observe as follows : — " It breeds in almost all the desert, solitary, and rocky localities in 

 the south of France, arriving in April, and leaving in September." In Savoy, according to 

 Bailly, it is not rare during the summer in the rocky parts of the mountains. The males gene- 

 rally arrive alone from the 12th to the 20th of April, according to the season ; the females, 

 which also return alone, do not appear until five or six days after the males, and they then pair. 

 Those that return to the Alps remain paired a few days in the rocks of the lower hills, until the 

 snow leaves and enables them to go to their summer home. 



In Hewitson's ' Eggs of British Birds ' the Rev. S. C. Malan says that he " had frequent 

 opportunities of watching the habits of the Rock-Thrush while residing in the neighbourhood 

 of Geneva. It is not by any means a rare bird at the foot of the Seleve, a few miles from 

 that city." 



Mr. Howard Saunders, in his ' List of the Birds of Southern Spain,' writes as follows : — 

 " In the south I have only observed this species in the Sierra Nevada, where it is abundant. It 

 frequents much higher ground than P. cyanea, which species it replaces in Aragon. I found a 

 nest in that province in May, in the side of a gorge, on either hand of which were vineyards." 

 Major Irby says that at Gibraltar it occurs only as a passing visitant, being observed on the 

 rock itself. He tells us that it was first noticed on the 4th of April in considerable numbers, 

 and one was seen returning on the 26th September. Herr A. von Homeyer observed it on the 

 Balearic islands, where it is a migrant, frequenting the stony parts of the valleys in preference 

 to the bare rocks in the mountains. In Portugal it is not rare. According to Loche it is 

 sedentary in Algeria in the mountainous portions of the country, and is not plentiful. It was 

 only occasionally noticed by Dr. Taczanowski during his visit to that country. He writes to us: — 

 " In Algeria it is not numerous; in April 1867 I saw two only, on the road between Constantine 

 and Philippeville." Canon Tristram, in his paper on the ornithology of Northern Africa, 

 says that the present bird is decidedly scarcer in the Sahara than the Blue Rock-Thrush, 

 " more shy and wary, and resorting only to the higher grounds. In the upper portions of the 

 Atlas it is more plentiful ; but I have only seen it three or four times in the Desert, and then 

 only on such elevated situations as the summits of the Chebkha, M'Zab." Mr. Osbert Salvin, in 

 the account of his birds'-nesting trip to the Eastern Atlas, also remarks : — " This Rock-Thrush 

 does not appear to be nearly so common as the Blue Rock-Thrush in the districts we visited; 

 indeed, except on one occasion, at Kef Laks, I have no instance noted of having met with it." 



It was observed by the late Mr. W. T. H. Chambers in Tripoli. Mr. C. A. Wright says 

 that in Malta it "arrives early in spring (about the middle of March) generally in pairs, and 

 may be seen till May. It reappears in September, on its voyage southward." 



Doderlein states that in Sicily it is tolerably abundant on the spring migration on the hills 

 around Palermo ; in other parts of the island it is rarer ; and he does not believe that any 

 remain to breed there. He adds that it is a regular bird of passage in Sardinia. Count Sal- 

 vadori states that it arrives in Italy in the spring, and leaves again in September, taking up its 



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