10 Mr. C. W. Wyatt on the Birds of Sinai. 



amongst them. In Wady Hamr I obtained Sylvia rueppelli, 

 which was not uncommon amongst the retem-bushes. 



We reached the Convent valley again on March 25th. I found 

 Saxicola cenanfhe had made his appearance on the plain of Er 

 Rahah during our absence, as well as ^S'. ampldleuca. On the 

 30th, Anthus campestris arrived. 



On the 2nd of April I started for Akabah, and proceeded by 

 W^adys Sa'l, Hudherah, and El 'Ain to the sea-shore. On the 

 way down, I fell in with a few of our common spring visitors — 

 the Redstart, Cuckoo, and Yellow Wagtail, the latter accom- 

 panying us the greater part of a day, running round the legs of 

 our camels. At El Noweyba, where there are some palm-trees 

 and bushes growing close to the water, I found Budytes flavus, 

 var. cinereocajnllus, Savi, Merops persica, and Hirundo domestica. 



Our road now lay for the rest of the journey along the shore, 

 close to the blue waters of the Gulf of Akabah. A more quiet, 

 lifeless, and desolate scene could hardly be imagined. Not even 

 a Gull was to be seen, until we got near the head of the gulf : 

 half-a-dozen Swallows, just arrived, a pair of Tringoides hypoleu- 

 cus, and the Grey-headed Wagtail were all the birds we saw 

 during a forty-miles' ride. On reaching the Arabah, a vast 

 wady separating the desert of the Tih from the mountains of 

 Edom, at the head of the Gulf, we were out of the peninsula of 

 Sinai. 



I afterwards went to Petra, by Wady Ithm and along the 

 highlands of Edom. I much regret I could not make a stay 

 and collect in this interesting region. Judging from what I 

 saw from the back of a camel, its ornithology differs very much 

 from that of the peninsula, partaking rather of that of the 

 " South Country " of Palestine. 



In the following list those species which are marked with an 

 asterisk were obtained by Mr. Holland, during former visits to 

 the peninsula. 



*Gyps fulvus (Graelin). Griffon Vulture. 



I never saw either the Griffon or Lsemmergeyer while I was in 

 the peninsula ; the former, however, has been observed by Mr. 

 Holland, on a former visit, feeding upon a dead camel near 

 Akabah. 



