new to Palestine. 325 



(2) Cuckoo, Lineated — Cuculus leptodetus *. An eastern 

 form of a West- African bird. 



(3) Curlew, Slender-billed — Numenius tenuirostris. 



(4) Duck, Golden-eye — Clanqula glaucion. 



(5) Duck, Common Sheldrake — Tadorna vulpanser. 



(6) Phalarope, Red-necked — Phalaropus hyperboreus. 



(7) Plover, White-tailed — Chettusia leucura. 



(8) Pratincole, Nordmann's — Glareola melanoptera. 



(9) Yellow-ammer — Emberiza citrinella. 



It may be of interest also if I make a few additions to his 

 list, following the same order, chiefly as to the localities of 

 birds. In two or more instances I was fortunate enough to 

 obtain specimens which he has entered in his list, but which 

 he did not identify himself. 



No. 6. Rock Thrush — Monticola saxatilis. 



Tristram. — " It arrives in the beginning of April. South 

 of Lebanon it is only a passing traveller tarrying but a 

 night/' 



Addition. — It is true that it arrives in April, and in some 

 seasons as early as March; but to the last part of his 

 statement I would add that between the 10th and the 30th 

 of September I shot several pairs in the immediate vicinity 

 of Jerusalem. 



No. 28. White-throated Robin — Erithacus gutturalis. 

 Tristram. — " Discovered on Hermon and Lebanon." 

 Addition. — Near Jerusalem in August, 1885, 1 shot a fine 



specimen of the female of this species. 



No. 30. Eastern Nightingale — Erithacus philomela. 



Tristram. — " Not obtained by me in Palestine. It may 

 be discovered there." 



* [Cuculus leptodetus Cab. et Heine (Mus. Hein. iv. p. 34), based on 

 specimens from " Nubia," is placed by Capt. Shelley (Cat. B. xix. p. 244) 

 as a synonym of C. gularis Stepli. — a well-known South-African species 

 nearly allied to C. canorus, which occurs also in West Africa, and 

 (according to the B. M. Catalogue) in East Africa as far north as Lado 

 on the Nile. It might, therefore, visit Palestine in summer, as is the 

 case with other East- African birds, but we know of no other authority for 

 its doing so except Mr. Merrill's statement. — Edd.] 



