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These new British species and subspecies should be added 

 to the Hand-List as follows : — 



LUSCINIOLA MELANOPOGON 



130a. Lusciniola melanopogon melanopogon (Temm.). — 



THE MOUSTACHED WARBLER. 



Sylvia melanopogon Temminck, PI. Col. 245, fig. 2 (182.3 — 

 Campagna near Rome). 



Lusciniola m. melanopogon, H. W. Ford-Lindsay, Brit. B., IX., 

 p- 197. 



Distribution. — England. — One. Male, St. Leonards-on-Sea 

 (Sussex), April 12th, 1915 {ut supra). 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Breeds in south-east Spain, Italy, 

 Sicily, and Hungary, probably in Dalmatia and Bosnia and 

 perhaps in south France and Egypt. Hungarian birds winter 

 in Greece. From Kirghiz Steppes and west Turkestan east 

 to Persia replaced by an allied race, wintering in India. 



HYPOLAIS PALLIDA 



142a. Hypolais pallida pallida (Hempr. & Elir.) — THE 

 OLIVACEOUS WARBLER. 



CuRRUCA PALLIDA Heinprich and Ehrenberg, Symbolae Physicns 

 fol. bb (1833 — On the Nile in Egypt and Xnbia). 

 Hypolais p. pallida T. Parkin, Brit. R., IX., p. 198. 



Distribution. — Engkmd. — One. Male, near St. Leonards- 

 on-Sea (Sussex), May 20th, 1915 {ut supra). 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Breeds in Balkan Peninsula from 

 Dalmatia, Montenegro, and Bulgaria southwards ; also in 

 Greek Islands, Asia Minor, Cyprus, Crete, Palestine, Meso- 

 potamia, Transcaucasia, Turkestan, Persia and Transcaspia, 

 as well as Egypt and Nubia. Winters in Arabia and north- 

 east Africa south to British East Africa. 



174a. CEnanthe leucura syenitica (Heugl.) — THE NORTH 

 AFRICAN BLACK WHEATEAR. 



Saxicola SYENITICA Heuglin, Journ. f. Orn., 1869, p. 1.j5 (El-Kab 

 in Upper Egypt. Type examined by Hartert). 

 (Enanthe leiicura syenitica, T. Parkin, Brit. B., IX., p. 200. 



Distribution. — England. — One. Male, Pevensey Sluice 

 (Sussex), June 7th, 1915 {nt svpra). 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Marocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Trijooli, 

 chiefly south of Atlas, but in places nearly to Mediterranean. 

 Only the type known from Egypt, so far. 



