SIX months' bird collecting in EGYPT. 1 6/ 



94. BoNELLi's Warbler, Phylloscopiis boncllil (Vieill), 



Naturally Dr. Adams failed to meet with this in the 

 winter. It is a spring migrant. We first got it at the most 

 southern point of our journey, Philoe, on the 27th of March. 

 It may be best distinguished from the Willow Warbler by 

 the underparts being white from the vent to the beak very 

 faintly shaded, and by the lower part of the back being 

 yellow. My specimens are rather lighter in the back than 

 two Spanish ones in my collection, marked Vittoria and 

 Gibraltar. 



Obs. Subalpine Warbler, Sylvia siibalplna, Bon. 



I thought I saw this once in April, but may easily 

 have been mistaken. 



95. Tree Pipit, Anthus trlvlalls (Linn.); 

 A. arboreus (Bech). 



Captain Shelley says this bird arrives about March, but 

 the first I shot was on the 23rd of April, after which I saw 

 it plentifully in the groves. On being flushed from the 

 ground, it would generally fly into an upper branch of the 

 nearest tree. 



96. Red-throated Pipit, AntJms cervlnus (Pall); 

 A. cecllll, Aud. (Desc. de I'Egypt, p. 281, 1825); A. coutellli, 



Aud., .? I.e. 



This was extremely common, more particularly in the 

 Delta, where you could hardly cross a field without seeing 

 numbers of them. I shot some without the least red on 

 the throat in January and February, others with only a 



