130 Mr. W. L, Sclater on [Ibis, 



for the Tring Museum ; they are referable to 100 species. 

 Amoiiji^ them the following are novelties, and have already 

 been described by Mr. Ogilvie- Grant iu the BuUetiu 

 of the British Ornithologists' Club : — Rhynchostruthus p. 

 yemenensia, Poliospiza yemenenais, Pseudacanthis yeinenensis, 

 Tnrdits menachensis. Accentor fat/ani, QLnanthe yeinenensis, 

 Par'isnwn buriji, and Cryptolopha u. yemenensis. 



In addition to these eight new forms the following 

 twenty-seven have never previously been taken in southern 

 Arabia ; at any rate, they do not appear in the list compiled 

 by Mr. Ogilvie-Grant in 1900: — Cinnyricinclns verreauxi, 

 Petronia dentata, Emberiza hortulana, Emberiza c. seminovi, 

 Antlius r. cinnamomeuSy A. I. captus^ Laniiis minor, Phonens 

 niluticus, Acrocephalus palustris, Sylvia c. icterops, S. carruca, 

 Fhylloscopus c. abietinus, Montico/a rufucinerea, Phuenicurus 

 p. phoenicurus, Lusciiiia luscinia, Cercotrichas podobe, Irania 

 gutiuralis, Saxicola r. maiira, Alseonax gambagoe, Riparia 

 rupestris, Ilirundo rufula, Merops apiaster, Gypaetus b. 

 grandis, llieraa'etus fasciafus, GaUinago media, Phalaropus 

 lobatus, Numida p. ptilorhyncha. 



V On the whole the avifauna of Yemen, as would be expected, 

 shows a much stronger affinity to that of the Ethiopian 

 region than to that of the Pahearctic region. Most of the 

 typical Palsearctic forms are migrants which would naturally 

 pass through Arabia on their journey south. One remark- 

 able exception is the Lamraergeyei*, which appears to belong 

 to the widely ranging race of southern Europe and Asia 

 rather than to the Abyssinian form, to which it is certainly 

 nearest in point of distance. 



Mr. Bury has published an account of his travels in 

 Yemen in a more popular form*, and we would recommend 

 all who are interested in the subject to obtain this work. A 

 few notes on the birds, to which a chapter is devoted, have 

 been borrowed to make the present account more complete, 

 and these with Mr. Bury's field-notes are placed in inverted 



* 'Arabia Infelix, or the Turks in Yamen,' by G. Wyman Bury, 

 pp. x+213, lllustr. & Maps. Loudon (Macmillan) 1015. 8vo. 



