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had been obtained in that country. On searching I found 
it at once. It is a young specimen which I got, through 
Mr. Blanc’s kindness, about two years ago, and was labelled 
by him as a “ Lanner,” October 1907, from Djebel Batteria 
in North Tunisia. 
Its description is as follows:— 
Upper parts generally dark brown, some of the feathers 
slightly shaded with greyish and with pale rufous edges, 
which are more conspicuous on the feathers of shoulders, 
rump, and upper tail-coverts; quills dark brown, partly 
margined with huffy white towards the tip and barred with 
white on the inner webs ; tail greyish brown, middle feathers 
almost uniform, the lateral ones marked with buffy-white 
oval spots on the outer web, which are rather more oval on 
the inner ; head and nape buffy white, with blackish central 
streaks to the feathers ; cheek-stripe brown, very con¬ 
spicuous ; chin white ; under surface white, with numerous 
and broad stripes of dark brown, under wing-coverts brown 
in the centre of the feathers, with broad white margins ; 
cere and legs pale blue-grey ; iris brown. 
Culmen 32 mm. ; wing 390 ; tail 260 ; tarsus 60. 
I have no doubt as to the identity of the bird, but, in 
the bibliography quoted, I was unable to find any infor¬ 
mation relative to the presence of the Saker in Tunisia. 
I am, Sirs, yours &c., 
Ca’ Oddo (Padua), Count E. Ariugoni Degli Oddi. 
October 4th, 1909. 
Sirs, —May I be permitted to offer a few remarks on 
Mr. J. A. Bucknill’s interesting paper on the Ornithology 
of: Cyprus in your last number ? 
The name of the collector who furnished the material for 
Herr A. Muller’s paper in the Journ. f. Ornitli. for 1870 
(p. 385) is Herr Gustav Schroder. He is still living, but is 
no longer resident in Cyprus (p. 576). 
Mr. Bucknill is mistaken in supposing that the eggs of 
Sylvia melanothorax are still unknown, for Glaszner sent at 
