70 Col. R. Meinertzliagen on Birds from [Ibis, 



The following are detail wing-measurements from the 

 various localities : — 



Jerusalem 167, 170 — 



Forty miles east of Damascus .... 161, 164, 165 151, 155 



Judsean highlands 165 154 



Asia Minor — 158 



Mount Carmel, Palestine — 155 



Eregli, S.E. Asia Minor -- 154 



Engeddi, Dead Sea — 158 



Cyprus 162-169 153-157 



Crete 155, 160, 163 148, 151 



Sporades — 148 



On size also, I think it will be agreed, they can be united, 

 though Cretan birds are on the small side. 



Alectoris grseca sinaica (Bp.). 



This form occurs, according to skins I have examined, in 

 Syria in the Anti-Lebanon i)ehind Damascus, in the Moab 

 hills east of the Jordan and throughout the Jordan Valley 

 south to Jericho, and in the Sinai Peninsula. 



Birds are markedly paler than Cypriotes on the back and 

 have a much greyer head, in some birds almost pure grey ; 

 this no doubt induced Dawydoff to describe ?)ia?'^arite, which 

 must become a synonym of sinaica. 



The wing of males varies from 165 to 177, once 151, and 

 of females from' 151 to 159 mm. 



COTURNIX COTURNIX. 



Coturnix coturnix coturnix (L.). 



The Common Quail is a sparse resident throughout Pales- 

 tine and Egypt and abundant on both passages. In early 

 May 1920 adults with brood were flushed at the Delta 

 Barrage in Egypt. A certain number winter regularly 

 in Palestine, especially in the Jordan Valley, in Egypt and 

 near Solium, but whether these are the resident birds or part 

 of the passage migrants, I am unable to say. 



In Palestine spring passage appears to commence in early 

 March. Autumn passage seldom commences before the 

 middle of August and is at its height in early September. 



