258 Mr. W. Raw on the [Ibis, 



Museum. It was an adult male, and I tried in vain to 

 secure another male ■which liaunted the rocky bed of an old 

 canal for several days about the same time. This species 

 must have been overlooked, for on 1 November, 191(S, I shot 

 another adult male, and during the succeeding week I saw 

 upwards of a dozen and shot several, which are in my 

 collection and that of Mr. J. L. Bonhote. All the specimens 

 shot and seen were males, and, although I kept a good look- 

 out, I never saw a single female. 



83. (Enanthe melanoleuca finschii. Araluan C'hat. 



A feauile shot on 12 February, 1*J17, and three males 

 during November, l'Jl<S, were all I met with at Abu 

 Zabal. 



84. (Enanthe isabellina. Isabelline Wheatear. 



Winters at Abu Zabal, arriving towards the end of 

 August and departing in April. None remain to breed. 

 Very quarrelsome ; a wounded bird is invariably set upon 

 and killed by others of the same species. 



85. (Enanthe lugens lugens. Mourning (;hat. 

 Occasionally seen during the winter, and a brood of 



young, together with their parents, annually appeared on a 

 piece of waste ground during August. Lack of suitable 

 rocky retreats probably accounts for their scarcity at Abu 

 Zabal. 



Captain W. Bigger found young birds out of the nest on 

 28 April, and a pair building on 2 June^ 191 7, in a wadi 

 behind the (Utadel, Cairo. 



I had intendetl to devote some time to this family in the 

 spring of 1919, but the riots unfortunately upset my 

 arrangements. 



[Although I never found a nest with young or eggs, I saw 

 and shot birds which were evidently breeding in the Wadi 

 Hof near Helwan on 5. v. 09, and found old nests in holes 

 in the rocky sides of small valleys, presumably of this 

 species. — R. S.] 



