156 Mr. W. L. Sclatcr on [Ibis, 



Acrocephahis palustris. 



Sylvia palusiris Bechstein, Orn, Tasclienb. 1803, p. 166: 

 Germany. 



a.S-^ Hajeilah, 2080 ft. l].iv. 13. 



The iMaisli- Warbler has not been previously recorded 

 from southern Arabia, though it breeds as far east as Persia 

 and winters in tropical Africa. There is, however, an 

 example in the British Museum, collected by Mr. Bury in 

 the Amiri district of southern Arabia in October some years 

 ago. It is probably a transient visitor on migration. 



Cisticola cisticola aridula. 



Cisticula anV/w/a Witherby, Bull. B, O.C. xi. 1900, p. 13 : 

 White Nile S. of Khartoum. 



Yerbury, 1896, p. 25 ; O.-Grant, 1900, p. 255. 



a-e. 3 J , 2 ? . Hajeilah, 2080 ft. 11-18. iii. 13. 



"Length in flesh, S 108 to 112, ? 106 mm. Iris palo 

 clay-brown ; bill dark brown, lower mandible sliglitly paler ; 

 feet reddish brown. '^ 



These examples are quite similar to those obtained by 

 Messrs. Percival and Dodson at Lahej, and also to those 

 in the British Museum from Abyssinia and the Soudan. 

 There is no trace of the reddish-brown band on the basal 

 side of the subterminal black band of the outer tail-feathers. 

 I am inclined to identify the Arabian form with Witherby's 

 C. aridula, always remembering that the type of Witherby's 

 species is an abnormally pale and washed-out example. 



Hippolais languida. 



Carraca lanyuida Ilcmprich & Ehrenberg, Symb. Phys. 

 1833, ff. cc. : Syria. 



O.-Grant, 1900, p. 254. 



G. ? . Hajeilah, 2080 ft. 4.iv. 13. 



" Length in flesh 156 mm. ; bill, upper mandible blackish, 

 loAver paler brown ; legs greyish brown," 



This species breeds from Syria to Turkestan and Af- 

 ghanistan, and also at Fao on the Persian Gulf, where 

 Mr. W. I). Cuming took a nest in August. It has 



