360 Mr. W. Raw on the [Ibis, 



115. Alcedo atthis atthis (= A. isp'ula pallida auct.). 



Kingfisher. 



Arrives at Abu Zabaal towards the end of August and 

 remains throughout the winter, leaving again in April. 



I have compared specimens from Abu Zabaal at the 

 British Museum and refer them to this form. 



116. lynx torquilla torquilla. Wryneck. 



More numerous as a spring migrant than in the autumn. 

 Average dates 5 April and 12 September. 



117. Cuculus canorus canoms. Cuckoo. 



Not uncommon on Ijoth migraiions. I shot a male as late 

 as 6 May, 1916, and another on 15 September, 1918. 



118. Cuculus canorus telephonus. Cuckoo. 



I include provisionally under this name a race of Cuckoos 

 which pass through Abu Zabaal each spring. A bird shot 

 by me on 6 May, 1916, was identified by Mr. M. J. Nicoll 

 as C. c. saturatus. Every successive spring I obtained 

 specimens, and a pair were shot out of a bunch of nine seen 

 on 17 April, 1917. On 21 May, 1917, I shot a beautiful 

 hepatic form out on the desert, and a bird only less red and 

 beautiful was shot at the Birket Accrashi on 5 May, 1917. 



I gave all my specimens except one to the Giza Museum 

 and Mr. J. L. Bonhote. I compared my s[)ecimen with birds 

 in the British Museum, and matched it with five or six laro'e- 

 winged birds from western Asia. These were as yet un- 

 identified, and may possibly be a new race hitherto undesci'ibed. 

 I hope to compare the birds in Mr. Bonhote's collection 

 shortly. I submitted my bird to Dr. E. Hartert, and he 

 kindly gave me his opinion on it as follows : — " Your bird 

 is as large as largest telephomis, but it does not show a 

 particularly finely-barred underside. No such race is known 

 which comljines the larger size of telephonus with the stronger 

 barring of C. c. canorus. I would therefore call it telephonus.''' 



It certainly is not C. c. satwatus, which Dr. Hartert 

 informs me should be called Cuculus optatus, and which 

 is unlikely to occur in Egypt. 



