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THE IBIS. 



ELEVENTH SERIES. 



Vol. IV. No. 1. JANUARY 1922. 



I. — Notes on some Birds from the Near East and from 

 Troph-al East Africa. By Colonel R. Meinertzhagen, 

 D.S.O., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



(Text-figures 1-7.) 



[Continued from Ibis, 1921, p. 671.] 



PHYLLOSCOPUS COLLYBITA. 



Phylloscopus collybita collybita (Vieill.). 



Out of a lari^e series of I'h>/llosropus from tropical eastern 

 Africa not one is a Cliittcliaff, and, moreover, I can find no 

 record of the species from this region. 



Its southern winter limit appears to be a line across 

 Africa from (in the west) Senegambia, through north- 

 central Sahara, Bahr el Ghazal, southern Abyssinia, and 

 northern Somaliland. I found the Chiffchaff common in 

 the Siwa Oasis in January, and it is a common winter 

 visitor to Egypt, the latest spring record being on 1. iv. 



Quite a number a[)pear to winter in tlie Jordan Valley in 

 Palestine, where they were common from November to 

 February, after all FJii/Uoscopus trochilus had gone farther 

 south. (Jommon on passage at Damascus in October. 



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