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worn breedino- plumage it is more difficult to recognize the 

 races of this species. 



This race is absent from Damascus and the Lebanon. It is 

 scarce on the Syrian coast at Bejrout, but becomes common 

 farther south at Tyre, Acre, Haifa, and on Mount Carmel. 

 It occurs thronghont the Jordan Valley from the Sea of 

 Galilee to the Dead Sea and in the Yarmuk Valley, and is 

 absent from the Jndfean highlands though plentiful in the 

 foot-hills and coastal plain south to Gaza. It is also absent 

 from northern Sinai. 



MUSCICAPA STRIATA. 



Muscicapa s. striata (Pall.). 



A male obtained at Damascus on 9. ix. is of this race. 

 All Palestine and Egyptian birds which I have examined arc 

 similarly of this race. 



In Palestine, birds commence arriving in spring in the 

 middle of April, and nest commonly in the coastal plains and 

 on the Judasan highlands. I never observed them in the 

 Jordan Valley. 



In Egypt, spring passage was in full swing up to the 

 middle of May, when it suddenly stopped, the latest record 

 beino- a single bird on 20. v. 



In Kenya Colony, autumn migrants commence arriving in 

 late September or early October, and are plentiful by the 

 middle of that month ; most of them remain the winter. 

 On spring passage I noted birds moving on the coast of 

 Tanganyika Territory and on the slo[)es of Kilimanjaro 

 during the first three weeks in March. My latest spring 

 record is on 28. iii. Mr. Turner, who was on the coast of 

 Kenya Colony during April, never saw a single bird. 



Muscicapa s. neumanni Poche. 



Two spring migrants obtained at Mombasa on 29. iii. and 

 30. iii. respectively belong to this race. Also three birds 

 obtained in northern Somaliland [Archer) from 23. ix. 

 to 3. X. 



[To be continued.] 



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