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This Pi[)it docs not appear to have been previously noticed 

 in southern Arabia. It has a wide distribution throughout 

 eastern and north-eastern Africa however, while the Indian 

 Pipit {A. r.rufulus), which only differs in its slightly smaller 

 size, is found in India. The Yemen examples match those 

 from east and north-east Africa, and the wings average 

 86 mm. 



Anthus leiicophrys captus. 



Anthus leucvphrys Coptics Ilartcrt, Yog. pal. Fauna, i. 1905, 

 p. 269: Palestnie. 



a-j. 6 J, 4 ? . Menakha, 7000-8500 ft. 24. xii. 12 to 

 l.ii. 13. 



k. c? . Wasil, 4000 ft. 26. ii. 13. 



/. ? . llajeilah, 2080 ft. 3. iv. 13. 



m-o. S, ? ; o. Sok-al-Khamis, 7000 ft. 18-19. vii. 13. 



" ? . Upper mandible dark slate, lower paler with a 

 purplish tinge, feet butf. Stomach contained remains of 

 small orthoptera." 



Tills Pipit ranges, according to Hartert, from Palestine to 

 the Indus valley. It has never previously been recorded 

 from southern Arabia, but there is a considerable series in 

 the British Museum obtained some years back by Bury 

 from various localities in the Amiri district throughout the 

 year, fairly proving that the species is a resident at any rate 

 in southern Arabia. It differs from A. I. sordldus, the form 

 found in north-eastern and eastern Africa, in its much [)aler 

 coloration below, while the back always shows traces of the 

 striping which is quite absent in the adult A. I. sordidus. 



■ Cinnyris oseus. 



Cinnyris osea Bonaparte, Comptes Rend. Acad. vol. 42, 

 1856, p. 765 : near Jericho. 



O.-Grant, 1900, p. 251 ; Lorenz & Hellmayr, 1901, 

 p. 238, 1907, p. 112. 



a-h. 5 c?, 3 ? . Menakha, 6000-7500 ft. 21.xii. 12 to 

 21.i. 13. 



i,j. 2 c? . Y^^asil, 4000 ft. 22-25. ii. 13. 



yt, /. 2 ? . Hajeilah, 2080 ft. 17. iii. to 7. iv. 13. 



W.J. Sok-al-Khamis, 7000 ft. 19. vii. 13. 



