1921.3 the JS^ear J^ast and Tropical Kast Africa. G31 



PASSER HISPANIOLENSIS. 



Passer h. hispaniolensis (Temni.). 



All Egyptian birds I have examined belong to the typical 

 race, also January birds from Solium. The Spanish Sparrow 

 apparently used to breed in Egypt, but has long since ceased 

 to do so. They arrive in immense flocks from the north 

 from September onwards and spread all over the Delta, 

 being as common in the Alexandria Docks as they are in the 

 Fayoum or anywhere else in the Delta. They spread tar 

 down the Nile, reaching south to Merowe, creating havoc 

 among the crops. 



In spring they begin to leave in the middle of March, and 

 a larofe flock was seen at the Delta Barrage as late as 11. iv. 



Passer h. transcaspicus Tschusi. 



The common race of Palestine and Syria, extending south 

 in winter to central Sinai. The only breeding colonies I saw 

 were at the north-west corner of the Sea of Galilee and in the 

 Lower Jordan Valley, but the vast majority of winter birds 

 are migrants, breeding birds being rare. Most of the winter 

 visitors appear to have left Palestine by the middle of 

 March. Not seen in Palestine outside the Jordan Valley 

 and Sea of Galilee areas. 



Passer italiaB (Vieill.). 



A typical specimen shot from a flock of Spanish Sparrows 

 at Solium on 21. i. was a male with a wing of 76 mm. This 

 is the first Egy[)tian record. 



Melanocorypha calandra hebraica. 



Alelanocorijplia calandra hebraica Meinertz. Bull. B. 0. 0. 

 xli. 1920j p. 21 : Jenin in northern Palestine. 



The common resident Calandra Lark of Syria and 

 Palestine, breeding from Damascus and Baalbek to the Plain 

 of Esdraelon in northern Palestine and throughout the 

 coastal belt of that country. Not noted in the Judaean 

 highlands or Jordan Valley. 



