Institution Libraries 24 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXXVI. 1930. I would have liked to stay at Ditschi for some time longer, but I had to return to the coast on the 22nd for different reasons. After a forced march of three days I arrived at Momi on the afternoon of the 24th. I left my bird-skinners there to pack the birds and to collect some of the more interesting lowland species, and I went by canoe to Manokwari (60 miles away) to get fresh provisions and the new outfit (ammunition, etc.) which I expected by the June steamer. On the 28th of June I went back to Momi in two canoes, my own loaded with outfit, the other one with provisions. On the next day we had a terrible storm and the other canoe disappeared. I waited in Momi from the 30th of June to the 4th of July without getting any news about my provisions. In the meantime the Griffioen had arrived to take me to Wasior (Wandanimen), whither I departed without having received the food necessary for my intended trip to the Wandammen Mountains. On the 4th of July I left Momi with my skinners and all the outfit and arrived at Wasior after a very interesting voyage (passing Rumberpon (Amberpon) and Mios-War) on the morning of the 5th. The high, steep and isolated range of the Wandammen Mountains was visible far away and promised a good collection. On the 5th I packed my loads, tried to get some sago and dried fish cured by natives (I had neither rice nor meat tins nor any other provision on account of the canoe disaster), and started for the mountains on the morniiig of the 6th of July. We had to cut our way through the undergrowth in this uninhabited range and progress, therefore, was very slow ; on the 7th I reached at 1,400 m. » This form is, as far as I know, peculiar to Australia, where it occurs in N.W. Australia, the Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales, the names rothschildi and melvillensis of Mathews being synonyms of novaehoUandiae. Irediparra gallinacea novaeguineae (Rams.) 1878. This form is the darkest. It is almost entirely black on the upperside. The deep blue-black of the nape extends over the interscapulium to the rump and upper tail-coverts. The tail is black with a slight bronzy gloss, and almost as deep in colour as in /. g. gallinacea. The scapulars and inner secondaries are. tl
poensis (Fras.).-Buea. h%/ritu hriin9kencens Reio11w.-Victoria, Buea. ,, fucicmolu Fra8.-Buea. ,, luleifrons Verr.-Victoria, Bum. ,, cnnicupillu (Btrickl.).-Victoria, Bibundi, Bum. Cyptospira reichenouvi (Hart 1 .).--Victoria, Buea. *A'emchuris shdZe,yi Alexander. -Cameroon Mt. *l&trildu noiinida Hart1.-Bibundi, Bum. Cameroou Mt. W r i a serenu (Liun.).-Bibundi. (Text-figure 7.) i. On the genera CHARADRIUS, &GIALITIS, and EUDKOMIAS. WE cannot find auy satisfactory characters by which to separnte the genera Charadrius, B.qialitis, and Eudromias. In the new B.O.U. List of British Birds all three have been kept separate, in the Hand-list of British Birds all were united. Hlanford ( H . Ioclia, iv. pp. 236,237) separated a y i a l i t i s from Charadrius, but uiiitetl Enhomicis with tlic
By the HON. W. KOTHSCHILD, Ph.D., and E. HARTERT, Ph.D. (Plates IX.-XI., XV.-XXVI.) I. INTRODUCTION.THE followiug pages embody the ornithologioal results of three visits to Algeria, dariug the years 1908, 1000, and 1911. In 1908 we left England on February 12, and on the morning of the following day reached Marseilles, on a cold and frosty morning, out of which a bright sun arose on an immaculate bine sky : e.xceedingly beautiful to ns, after weeks of dull, dark English winter days. Consequently our spirits were high when we steamed through tlie picturesque harbour and bay, in anticipation of a beautiful, line passage. Unfortunately onr hopes were not fulfilled, for during the night, near the Balearic Isles, we encountered a strong wind and heavy seas, and when we arrived off Algiers we had " had ipiite enough of it," and Algiers itself did not present the often-deserilied '' vue ravissanto " which it frequently offers, as it was more or less covered with clouds (Pi. XV., top).Fonr days we stayed at Algiers, enjoying beautiful weather, observing the usual birds inhabiting the gardens, the " Bois," and woods in the neighbourhood, catching a few /.ijqaeiia ahjira and moths, and getting shooting-licences, a (|uite ceremonious and tedious affair, but necessary in order to avoid troubles and to buy powder, which one cannot get for money unless one holds a licence.On the 19th we left for Biskra by the night train, reaching EI Guerrah in the morning. The sun was brilliant, and from the train we saw on the bare fields and meadows Plovers {Vanellns), White Storks, Ravens, Larks and innumerable Sparrows. Near tiie station called " Les Lacs " a wide expanse of flat water was seen, on it many ducks, a few gulls, and far away on the other side hundreds and liundreds of Flamingoes I At last Biskra was reached, where we found coml'ortable rooms in the Hotel Victoria (PI. XIX., toj)).We stayed in that now so well known tourists' oasis, with a tour to Batna and another to El Kantara in between, until tlie end of April, and obtained a splendid first knowledge of the ornis of the northern portion of the Algerian Sahara. Biskra is a most convenient place for that purpose. One can stay in more or less comfortable hotels, and can get carriages and horses to drive and ride, and the neighbourhood is very interesting. Within a day's excursion one can climb the wild and bare rocky hills forming, so to say, the northern lioundary of the real desert, can become acquainted with the ornis of the oasis of date-palms, or visit the plain of El Outaya with fields and gardens, or get a glimpse of the real desert, many dry clayey stretches, real sand-dunes near Oumash, stony desert close to the town and again immediately south of Bordj Saada, patches of sebcha or salt-desert, as well as the banks and beds of desert-streams, the Oued Biskra and Oued Djeddi, especially rich in migrants of many kinds. * The uume cantillans is earlier than mbalp'tna, aad rtfera to this Sijecies, not to the UartfoiU Waiblei'j us crrouuously suppofrcU by ilichiiiuiiU.
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