1917-] i^^<i Birds of Yemen, 153 



Zosterops abyssinica arabs. 



Zosterops arahs Lorenz ii, Hellmayr, Orn. Monatsb. ix. 

 190], p. 31 : Ycshbum, S. Arabia. 



Lorenz & Hellraayr, 1901, p. 236, 1907, p. 11, pi. fig. 2 ; 

 O.-Grant, Ibis, 1901, p. 529. 



a-h. 4 (? , 3 ? , 1 o . Menakha, 6000-7500 ft. 21. xii. 12 

 to 30.i. 13. 



i-k. c? , 2 ? . Wasil, 4000 ft. 19. ii. 13 to 4. iii. 13. 



"Male. Iris yellowish broAvu, bill dark horny brown, feet 

 pale liorny ; in a female the lower mandible seems a little 

 paler." Male: length in flesh 110 mm., wing 57, tail 42, 

 culmen 9"0, tarsns 17*0. 



The Arabian White-eye is very close to that of north-east 

 Africa, but the brown wash on the breast and flanks is 

 distinctly of a darker shade and the yellow of the throat 

 is perhaps slight!}^ paler ; the size appears to be the same, 

 six Arabian males averaging 57 and six African also 57. 

 I cannot see that the chin is w'hite, as stated by Lorenz & 

 Helimayr. 



There are four other examples in the British Museum 

 previously obtained by Bury as follows: — (^ , Gerba, 

 December ; $ , Haniiah, August ; $ & o, Dthala, March 

 and February. 



Lanins minor. 



Lanius minor Gmclin, Syst. Nat. i. 1788, p. 308 : Italy. 



Laaius yemenensis O.-Grant, Bull. B. O. C. xxxiii. 1914, 

 p. 91. 



a. ? . Sanaa, 7000 ft. 3.ix.l3. 



b, c. tS imra. ,, „ 6-8. ix.l3. 



These Shrikes, which Mr. O.-Grant believed to be a new 

 species, appear to me after careful examination and com- 

 parison to be immature examples of the Lesser Grey Shrike. 

 This species can be at once distinguished from all other 

 Shrikes by the shortened outer primary. There is another 

 still younger bird in the British Museum, collected by 

 Bury at Ichaf, in the Amiri district of southern Arabia, on 

 October 4. This is so young that it appears probable that 



