10 Col. K. Meinertzhaoen o)i Birds from [Tbis, 



In Palestine it is a common bird ot" passage in spring 

 from early March, the main stream of migrants passing up 

 the Jordan Valley and Sea of Galilee, and not up the coast. 



Sylvia communis icterops Menetrics. 



A rare breeding si)ecies in the coastal plains o£ Palestine, 

 Obtained at Ludd on 1. v. 



Sylvia cnrruca curruca (L.). 



Common on spring passage in 1920 on the Sea of Galilee 

 in Palestine from 3. iii., but in Egypt spring passage occurred 

 in the same year from 24. iii. to 11. iy. 



Sylvia conspicillata conspicillata Tenim. 



A few are resident in the Jordan Valley near Jericho, 

 where I saw them throughout ihe winter and found a nest 

 with one egg on 29. iy. 



In Egypt they are common on the scrubby desert fringing 

 the Delta and on Lake Moeris in the Fayoum, and though I 

 only obseryed them from October to January, they probably 

 breed in these localities, as I found two old nests undoubtedly 

 of this species. 



AGROBATES GALACTOTES. 



Agrol)ates galactotes syriacus (Hemp. & Ehr.). 



In my African collection are three examples from Voi 

 and Tayeta in Kenya Colony obtained in March and 

 December. There is little doubt that Agrohates familiaris 

 psammochrous of Rcichenow (Vog. Afr.) recorded from eastern 

 Africa is of this race (c/. Hartcrt, Vog. pal. Fauna, p. 605). 



In a paper on the birds of Turkanaland by Van Someren 

 (Journ. East Afr. & Uganda N. H. S., no. 16, 1921, p. 27), 

 in which trinomials are largely ignored thereby rendering 

 most palsearctic material useless, Agrohates g. minor is said to 

 have been obtained in western Rudolf. The wings of six birds 

 are given as 86-93 mm. It is clear from this that the speci- 

 mens cannot be minor, whose wing rarely exceeds 82 mm. 

 They are probably synacus. 



