626 Col. R. Meinertzliagen 0)i Birds from [Tbis, 



Stresemann gives four males from Macedonia (mainly 

 from Serbia) as 280-308 in ^vi^g, and three females from 

 288 to 306 mm. 



Stresemann gives the wings of three males from Rumania 

 as from 308 to 333, and of five females as from 291 to 303. 



Palestine. 



6 J*. Wing 2'J2-312; culmen, length 51-56, height 

 18-20-5. 



8 ? . Wing 278-301 ; culmen, length 45-53, height 

 17-19. 



Gengler (J. f. 0. 1919, p. 221) gives the wings of three 

 Jerusalem birds as 300-324 and culmen length as 42-51. 



Two Urfa (N.W. Mesopotamia) birds {teste Stresemann, 

 Avif. Macedon.) have wings of 309 and 311. 



Stresemann (ibid.) gives the wing of four birds from 

 Vladikavkas (N. Caucasus) as 304-319 and one from the 

 ( -rimea as 301 mm. 



Eg>/2:)t. 



20 (J. AVing 286-324, 331 ; culmen, length 50-58, height 

 17-5-20. 



15 ? . Wing 286-317 ; culmen, length 45-54, height 

 17-5-20. 



Sardinia and Corsica. 



Probably all males. 



Wing 306-329; culmen, length 54-57, height 17-5-20. 



Now in fresh autumn plumage (the only test for birds 

 which bleach and wear like the Hooded Crow) I can detect 

 absolutely no difference in the colour of the plumage between 

 birds from all the above localities, though there is an 

 infinitesimal individual variation which is never constant 

 within a given area. I am unable to follow Genoler in his 

 Review of the Corvidse (J. f. 0. 1919, p. 215) and do not find 

 that the characters he gives to suhcornix, kaukasicus, and 

 syriacus hold good among fresh autumn birds. 



But in winter and breeding plumage, birds appear to bleach 

 in accordance with external conditions. In Palestine, for 

 instance, and especially in the Jordan Valley, by January 



