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Show 1890.] ON WILD SHEEP AND ANTELOPE OF ALGERIA. 361 Two letters were read addressed to the Secretary by Dr. Emin Pasha, C.M.Z.S., dated Bagamoyo, March 1890, announcing that he had forwarded certain zoological specimens for the Society's acceptance. Amongst them was an example of Anomalurus orientalis, Peters, from Monda, in the Nguru Mountains, and one of Rhynchocyon petersi from Mandera. Mr. Henry Seebohm exhibited a specimen of the Eastern Turtle- Dove (Turtur orientalis), which had been sent to him by Mr. James Backhouse, jr., of York, with a letter stating that it had been shot on the 23rd of October last at a place commonly known as Nab Gutter, a small stream running from Oliver's Mount'near Scarborough down to the sea. It flew very swiftly and was pursued by a number of small birds. A Ked-breasted Flycatcher (Muscicapa parva) was shot in the same locality on the same day. This example of the Eastern Turtle-Dove is in the plumage of the first autumn, without the pied patch on each side of the neck. The Oriental Turtle- Dove, in its t\pical form, with the axillaries, under tail-coverts, and the tips of most of the tail-feathers bluish grey, bred in Southeast Siberia, China, and Japan, as well as in the hilly part of India. It was not known to have previously occurred in the British Islands, but it had twice been recorded, both times in immature plumage, in the north of Scandinavia. Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell, F.Z.S., read the first of a series of papers entitled "Contributions to our Knowledge of the Antipatharian Corals." The present communication contained the description of a particularly fine example of the Black Coral of the Mediterranean (Gerardia lamarcki), and an account of a very remarkable Antipathid from the neighbourhood of the island of Mauritius, which it was proposed to call Antipathes robillardi. This Memcir will be published in the Society's ' Transactions.' The following papers were read :- 1. Notes on the Wild Sheep and Mountain-Antelope of Algeria. By E. N . B U X T O N 1. [Eeceived March 31,1890.] During a shooting-excursion into the Algerian Atlas in 1890, I obtained specimens of the Wild Sheep and the Mountain-Gazelle, of which the mounted heads are now exhibited. M y expedition was undertaken in January and February of the present year. The Djebel Metlili overlooking El Kantera, a station on the Biskra railway, was the first range I tried for Wild Sheep. I was advised by naturalists at home that the extension of the railway to this point would certainly have driven them further afield. It so 1 Communicated by P. L. Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S. |