454 NoVltATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIV. 1917. 



A FEW NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF YEMEN. 

 By ERNST HARTERT, Ph.D. 



IN the Ibis, 1917, pp. 129-186, appeared a valuable contribution to the 

 ornithology of Arabia by W. L. Sclater, called "The Birds of Yemen," 

 and based on collections made by G. Wyman Bury in 1912 and 1913. As Mr. 

 Sclater mentioned, part of the 400 skins collected by Bury " were destined for 

 the Tring Museum." As it is just as interesting to know what is contained in 

 the latter collection, it would have been better if those skins in Tring had also 

 been mentioned, especially as they are not always from the same localities and 

 at least in one case not of the same subspecies. The following foims in the list 

 of Mr. Sclater are also represented in the Tring Aruseum : 



Cinnyricinclus leucogaster leucogaster. 



Onj'chognathus (" Hagiopsar "") tristrami hadramauticus. 



Ploceus galbula. 



Estrilda lufibarba. 



Petronia dentata. 



" Passer domesticus buryi." 



Poliospiza menaehensis. 



Serinus uropygialis. 



Pseudacanthis yenK'nensis. 



Emberiza hortulana. 



Embcriza cinerea semenowi. 



" Fringillaria arabica," rectius Emberiza tahapisi arabica. 



Mirafra cantillans. 



Galerida cristata tardinata. 



Motacilla alba alba. 



Motacilla flava flava. 



Motacilla boarula melanope, rectius M. cinerea melanope. 



Anthus trivialis trivialis. 



Anthus rufulus cinnamomeus. 



" Anthus leucophrys captus," rectius A. sordidus arabicus Hart. 



Cinnyris osea osea. 



Cinnyris habessinica hellmaj'ri. 



Zosterops abyssinica arabs. 



Lanius minor. 



Lanius excubitor buryi. 



Phoneus niloticus, rectius Lanius senator niloticus. 



Fiscus nubicus, rectius Lanius nubicus. 



Enncoctonus collurio, rectius Lanius collurio. 



Tschagra percivali. 



" C'isticola cisticola aridula," recte C. cisticola arabica Hart. 



Hippolais pallida. 



" Sylvia blanfordi," rectius Parisoma blanfordi distincta Hart. 



Sylvia atricapilla atricapilla. 



