432 REY. H. B. TRISTRAM ON THE BIRDS OF PALESTINE. [Nov. 8, 
51. Cucutus canorus, L. 
Common in spring, and a victim of much objurgation from the 
noisy Crateropus chalybeus. 
52. CUCULUS LIBANOTICUS, Noy. sp. 
Diagn. C. canoro simillimus, sed pollice uno et dimidio minor ; 
alis pollice brevioribus, colore hepatico, subtus albus, nigro trans- 
versim anguste lineatus, rectrice externa rufa, fasciolis nigris 
subsericeis : tarsis semiplumatis : dorso rufo, lineis transversis 
nigris, uropygio unicolore. 
On the authority of Mr. G. R. Gray, I have ventured to describe 
this Cuckoo as new. Its affinities are with the C. micropterus, 
Gould, and C. gularis, Stephens. However, it is still more closely 
allied to C. canorus, if it be more than an hepatic variety. But the 
tarsi do not appear to be feathered so far down, while the outer 
tail-feathers, and indeed the rectrices generally, are barred with black 
instead of white. It is with great diffidence that I have described 
it as new. The specimen exhibited was shot by Mr. Cochrane in 
April, under the Lebanon, and therefore could not be a bird of the 
year. 
53. YUNX TORQUILLA, L. 
A summer resident. Not obtained before the middle of April. 
54. Picus syriacus, H. & Ehr. (=P. eruventatus, Antinori’). 
Found throughout the year in all suitable localities ; and the only 
Woodpecker ever observed in the country. 
55. ALCYON SMyRNENSIs, L. 
Found in pairs, but never in large numbers, through the whole 
length of the Jordan, from Banias to Engedi. Several were shot on 
the Dead Sea; and we took two nests, one in the banks of a stream 
flowing into the Sea of Galilee, and another in the bank of the lake 
itself. In the crop of one bird I found a snake entire; in that of 
another several frogs. It never occurred out of the Jordan valley, 
where it is a resident. 
56. Aucrepo 1spipA, L. 
Scantily distributed through the whole country, and on the shores 
of the Mediterranean. 
57. CERYLE RuDIs (L.). 
Very common, and frequent in small societies, both on the sea- 
coast In winter and in the Jordan valley throughout the year. 
Breeds in colonies on the banks of streams and by the Lake of Ga- 
lilee, from the end of March to the end of May. An extremely active 
and vivacious bird, and very different in its habits from either of the 
preceding. 
