1 91 9-] JJ/rds observed ill Palestine. S49 



Puffimis puffinus yelkouan. Levantine Shearwater. 



1 o , Jaffa, 14. i. 18. 



One picked up dead on sea-shore near Jaffa. 



Porzana porzana. Spotted Crake. 



1 J , Jaffa, 9. iv. 18. 1 (J , Jaffa, 23. iv. 18. 



Several specimens were ])icked up about 29 Septemljer, 

 1917, near Shellal, Rafa, etc., having been killed on tele- 

 graph-wires. I heard of some having been seen alive. 

 They appeared to pass at night and not to rest in these parts. 

 I picked up others under a telegraph-route a little north of 

 Jaffa on the 9tli and 23rd of April. 



Crex crex. Corn-Crake. 



1 ? , Jaffa, 10. V. 18. 



Shot one near Wadi Ghuzze on 30 September, 1917. 

 Others were reported in the same neighbourhood about 

 the same time. Picked one up injured by telegraph-wires, 

 10 May, 1918. Natives report it as common during summer 

 and nesting, but I did not notice it. 



Gallinula chloropus. Moorhen. 



[ saw one on the banks of the river Auja, near Jaffa, 

 13 April, and others later. Unlike those usually seen in 

 England this bird was very shy. 



Fulica atra. Coot. 



One noticed in Yebna Marsh in December 1917, but though 

 the locality seems very suitable I have seen no others. 



Columba oenas. Stock-Dove. 



Small flocks of these were noticed on the AVadi Ghuzze, 

 near Shellal, October 1917. As there were no villages or 

 towns nearer than Gaza (twelve miles), it is probable that 

 these were pure Mild birds. 



Streptopelia turtur. Turtle-Dove. 



I secured a specimen near Jaffa, 27 Marcli, 1918. Other 

 Turtle-Doves have not been actually identified. 



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