190 Col. U. Meinertzhagen on the [Ibis, 



Giza Zoological rrardeiis, £or tlie free use we were able to 

 make of his kiiowledoe of the birds of the Near East, for 

 housing and care of the collection, and finally for packing 

 it uj) for shipment to England. I also must discharge a debt 

 of gratitude to Dr. Hartert for the great help which was 

 always available :it Tring whilst working out the collection ; 

 and, finally, our tluinks are due to Trooper L. H. Powell of 

 •the Gloucestershire Yeomanry, without whoso services the 

 collection would not have been possible, and whose skins 

 have been so much admired by all who have seen them. 



Corvus corax. 



C. c. laurencei Hiimo. 

 Three males were obtained near liamleh on 1. i. and 1. ii. 

 Their wings measure 404, 405, and 430 mm. These birds do 

 not differ from specimens from Baluchist;in, and they are 

 the normal Havens in northern Palestine, the southern limit 

 beino- a line drawn roughly from the Mediterranean at the 

 mouth of the Wadi Sukereir in the latitude of Jerusalem, 

 south-east to a point between Hebron and Bethlehem, and 

 tlience in a north-easterly direction towards the north end 

 of the Dead Sea. They are resident and equally common 

 on the coastal plain and the Judsean highlands, and are 

 also abundiint on Mount C 'armol, but absent from the Jordan 

 Valley. 



Major Portal describes the courtship in the following 

 words : " The cock sat on the top of a tree, courting the hen 

 who was sitting below in the branches. I never heard such 

 a variety of sound, for after the preliminary croaks he bubbled 

 ami clucked more like a parrot than a raven. The hen paid 

 little attention, for she had just swallowed some meat with an 

 opium pill and was drowsy ; but the exasperated cock, mis- 

 taking her indisposition for inattention, suddenly fell on her 

 and drove her away." 



('. r. utficollis Lesson. ( = iimbrinus.) 

 A common resident in northern Sinai, southern Palestine to 

 just iu)rtli of Gaza, east to Hebron, the Dead Sea, and the 

 Jordan Yallev. The wing of a male measures 384 mm., and 



