1 8 The Ool agists' Record, March i, 192 1. 



My list is very incomplete as I only deal with those birds with 

 whose breeding habits I have actual personal experience. 



I. WARBLERS. 



Agrobates galactotes galactotes. 



This, to my mind, is quite one of the most interesting of Palestine 

 breeders, and it is a summer visitor which is very common in the 

 groves of the coastal plain, but though found in the Judean Hills is 

 nowhere abundant on the high ground, and I have usually found it 

 breeding in cover or gardens in the valleys in such localities. The first 

 arrival in 1920 was noted on nth April when I saw a solitary bird. 

 Several were seen the next day, and by the 20th April they were 

 plentiful throughout the coastal plain. Nearly completed nests 

 were found in an eucalyptus grove on 30th April, and nests containing 

 respectively 4, i, i (all fresh) in a mimosa hedge on ist May. 



Up to the 14th May eighteen nests were found and all contained 

 fresh eggs excepting a set of four taken on 9th May, which were 

 on the point of hatching out. 



During the latter half of May, of twenty-four nests found, twelve 

 had eggs in an advanced state of incubation, and in the 'other twelve 

 were either fresh eggs or eggs of not more than a few days incubation . 

 Practically all these fresh eggs were found in the last week of the 

 month. On the 26th May I came across my first nest of this species 

 containing young, and these were a few days old. 



In June fourteen nests were found containing eggs and an equi- 

 valent number or more with young ones. Eight of these nests 

 contained fresh eggs and were well spread over the first three weeks, . 

 while the eggs in an advanced state of incubation were found 

 between loth and 25th of the month. 



In July I had not much opportunity for nesting in the groves 

 until after the middle of the month, but during the last fortnight I 

 found fourteen nests and out of these five found on i6th July con- 

 tained fresh or practically fresh eggs, eight found from 17th July 

 onwards contained eggs in an advanced state of incubation besides 

 which several of the clutches taken at the end of the month had 

 been abandoned. 



The latest fresh eggs I found were a clutch of two on 22nd July, 

 while the latest clutch was one of three bad eggs taken on 9th August. 



Now, having enumerated some breeding dates with a good deal 



