INDEX 



Avocet, 129, Plate, 130, 213 



Bee-eater, Blue-checked, 20(5 



Common, 206 



Little Green, 54, Plate, 206 

 Birds in mid-air, 1, Plate 

 Bittern, 214 



Little, 214 

 Blackbird, 207 

 Blue Roller, 206 

 Bulbul, White-vented, 207 



Yellow-vented, 207 

 Bullfinch, Desert, 85, Plate, 210 

 Bunting, Common, 210 



Cretzschmar's, 210 



Ortolan, 210 



Smaller Reed, 210 

 Bush-babbler, Egyptian, 207 

 Bustard, Arabian, 211 



Houbara, 211 



Little, 211 

 Buzzard, African, 205 



Common, 205 



Honey, 205 



Long-legged, 205 



Calandra, Thick-billed, 207 

 Chaffinch, 210 

 Chat, Desert, 208 



Hemprich's Stone-, 208 



Hooded, 73, 208 



Mourning, 73, 208 



Rosy-vented, 71, Plate, 208 



Stone-, 208 



Chat, Whin, 208 



White-rumped,71,72, Plate, 208 

 White-throated Desert, 208 

 Chough, 211 



Coot, Common, Frontispiece Plate, 

 7, 172, 173, 214 

 Crested, 214 

 Cormorant, 191, Plate, 192, 193, 

 194, 195, 196, 215 

 Little, 215 

 Courser, Cream-coloured, 110, 



Plate, 111, 112, 212 

 Crake, Baillon's, 214 



Spotted, 214 

 Crane, Common, 135, Plate, 136, 

 137, 138, 139, 213 

 Demoiselle, 213 

 Crow, Hooded, 28, 89, Plate, 91, 



211 

 Cuckoo, 205 



Great-spotted, 205 

 Lark-heeled, 205 

 Curlew, 212 



Slender-billed, 212 



Diver, Red-throated, 216 

 Dotterel, 212 



Asiatic, 212 

 Dove, Palm, 92, Plate 



Rock, 211 



Stock, 211 



Turtle, 92, Plate, 93, 211 

 Duck, Common Wild, 7, 180, 214 



Ferruginous, 215 



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