228 Major A. G. L. Sladen on [Ibis, 



Emberiza hortulana. Ortolan Bunting. 

 1 c?, Jaffa, 20. iii.18. 



A few seen on the northward migration, the first being 

 near Jaffa, 20 March, 1918. 



Alauda arvensis. Sky-Lark. 



1 saw none until we got north of Beersheba in November 

 1917. There 1 found large Hocks and picked up many 

 injured birds under telegraph-wires. This would be 

 10 November. They were common throughout the winter 

 months near Jaffa and Ramleh. Possibly this is the eastern 

 form A. arvensis cinerascens. 



Calandrella brachydactyla brachydactyla. Short-toed Lark. 



Common near the Wadi Gliuzze, July to October 1917. 

 They also bred in the hilly country near Jaffa in the follow- 

 ing spring, though only in comparatively small numbers. 



Galerida cristata cinnamomea. Crested Lark. 



\^ , Wadi Ghuzze, 7.x. 17. 1 c? , Wadi Ghuzze, l.ix. 17. 

 2 (^ ? , Jaffa, 1. iii. 18. 



One of the commonest birds in all parts of Palestine which 

 I visited and breeding freely everywhere. 



Melanocorypha calandra calandra. Calandra Lark. 



2 o , Wadi Ghuzze, 7. ix. 17. 1 c? , Jaffa, 3. iii. 18. 

 Large flocks used to come to drink in the Wadi Ghuzze 



both morning and evening during August, Septembei', and 

 October, 1917. They always came in from the north, and 

 during other times of the day none were to be found. 

 I never saw one in the country south of the Wadi. Duri)ig 

 our advance north through Beersheba I came across them 

 plentifully throughout the country up to Jaffa. During the 

 following spring I found them breeding. 



The apparently definite line of demarcation formed by the 

 Wadi Ghuzze was very curious in view of the fact that 

 Crested and Short-toed Larks were very common and 

 breeding in the area south and south-east of the Wadi. 



