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S. D. BUSACK -54- 1982 30 MAY "CONT'D" two more PODARCIS PERSPICILLATA on equally steep walls (1333,♀, 4.6g, 62+62R, 2 yellow follicle L, 2 yellow follicle R; 1334,♀, 2.8 g, 54+72 R, 2 yellow L, 1 R). 6.9 km S. El KSIBA MUNICIPAL CAMPGROUND, 1540 m, got 2 more P. perspicillata (1335,♂, 4.6g, 58+77R; 1336, 1.8 g, 43+63R) were collected. 7.1 km S. El ksiba municp. comp. we found one LACERTA LEPIDA beneath a rock (1337,♀, 8.1g, 68+142C) and a P. hispanica (1338,♂, 2.9g, 49+96 C) was taken from a rock pile where it had been sunning on a rock. 31 MAY MOROCCO: OUKAIMEDEN, 2650 m. We drove today through some rather unspectacular country between the Middle Atlas and the High Atlas. We were unimpressed with most of the journey until we left MARRAKECH and could begin to see the High Atlas in the foreground. The last 20 km is really spectacular as one drives among the canyon walls between and through the clouds. When you reach OUKAIMEDEN, you are in a large meadow which has a domed spring at the N. end and is totally