482 Mr. Douglas Carruthers on Birds 



a. <$ . Madeba, E. of Dead Sea. 22 April, 1909. 

 Very common in spring and summer on the corn-lands 

 of Moab. 



11. Calaxdrelt.a brachydactyla. 



Calandrella brachydactyla Tristr. Pal. p. 80; Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. xiii. p. 580. 



a. S • Madeba, E. of Dead Sea. 22 April, 1909. 



12. AMMOMANES DESERTl. 



Ammomanes deserti Tristr. Pal. p. 79. 

 Ammomanes deserti isabellina Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. i. 

 p. 223. 



a. ? . Wadi Zerka Main, E. of Dead Sea. 25 April, 

 1909. 



b. ? . Tebuk, Hedjaz Railway. 1 Jan., 1909. 



Fairly common wherever there are rocky hills in desert 

 regions. 



13. Ammomanes cixcturus. 



Ammomanes cinctura Sharpe, Cat. B. xiii. p. 044. 

 a, b. g . South end of Dead Sea. 1 May, 1909. 



c. Sex doubtful. Teima, N.W. Arabia. 1 March, 1909. 

 Tbe occurrence of tliis Lark in the Dead Sea Basin makes 



an addition to the list of Palestine birds. It is easily 

 distinguished from Ammomanes deserti by the black edging 

 to the tail. 



14. Ammomanes sati katus. 



Ammomanes saturatus Grant, Nov. Zool. vol. vii. 1900, 

 p. 249. 



a. $ ; b. $ . Tebuk, Hedjaz Railway. 4 Jan., 1909. 



This specimen agrees with those obtained in Southern 

 Arabia by the Percival-Dobson Expedition. Mr. Percival 

 states that it is essentially a hill-bird, and is never seen 

 on the plains ; but I found it on the northern deserts far 

 away from any hill-country. 



As this species has been hitherto only recorded from 

 Abyssinia and S. Arabia, the extension of its range north- 

 wards, as far as the Land of Midian, is of interest. 



