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Agrobates galactotes galactotes (Tenim.). 



Does not appear to winter much south of the lino Bahr el 

 Gbazal, Khartoum, Port Sudan. 



A very common summer visitor to Egypt, Suez, and 

 Pah'stine, commencing to arrive in Egypt during the 

 first few days of April and in Palestine during the second 

 week in April. In summer they swarm throughout the 

 Jordan Valley and the coastal plain. I saw a few in 

 Jerusalem at the end of April 1920, but 1 liave no record of 

 their breedino; in the Judsean hiohlands. 



CISTICOLA CISTICOLA. 



Cisticola cisticola neurotica Meinertz. Bull. B. 0. C. xli. 

 1920, p. 25. 



The upper parts of this Palestine race are paler and 

 greyer than in C. c. cisticola, but not so pale as aridula or 

 arahica, or as a specimen from Mesopotamia which I have 

 seen in the Tring collection. 



An uncommon and local resident, chiefly in the coastal 

 region of Palestine from near Beirut to Jaffa. Not seen in 

 the Jordan Valley or on the Judsean highlands. 



Cisticola cisticola cisticola (Temm.). 



Birds from the Egyptian Delta are puzzling. I have 

 seen some which agree well with the typical race ; in fact the 

 majority seem to do so, but there are in the British Museum 

 a small series which more closely resemble liarterti. Witli- 

 erby (Bull. B. 0. C. xl. 1920, 'p. 119) thought they all 

 belonged to liarterti, which is not the case. 



This race seems to be the resident race in northern 

 Africa, Spain north to Valencia, and the Balearic 

 Islands. 



Cisticola cisticola harterti Witherby. 



The resident race in southern France, Italy, Sicily, 

 Sardinia, Asia Minor at Smyrna and Aidin, and partly in 

 Egypt. 



