1864.] REV. H. B.TRISTRAM ON THE BIRDS OF PALESTINE. 437 
99. CRATEROPUS CHALYBEUS, Bp. 
The most grotesque and amusing of all the birds of Palestine. 
It is amongst the most local species, being only found in the Dead 
Sea basin, and there in great abundance; but never ascends even as 
far as ten miles up the valley from the mouth of the Jordan, nor in 
any part of the Ghor. We found it at Jericho, Engedi, the Safieh, 
and under the north-east hills of Moab. It builds a large slovenly 
nest in the Zizyphus trees in March and April, and lays four or five 
glossy deep-blue eggs. 
100. Drymorca eracixis, Riipp. 
Common throughout the country all the year, excepting in the 
hill-country. Builds a very neat domed nest near the ground, with 
four or five richly coloured pink eggs. It is a very noisy and con- 
spicuous bird. 
101. Drymorca 
Found only in the most desolate wadys opening on the Salt Sea, 
where it flits from one scanty shrub to another. It differs from 
Drymoica striaticeps, described by me from the Sahara in ‘ Ibis,’ 
1859, p. 58, in the broader dark striz on the head and neck, in the 
throat and breast striated with black, instead of the dull uniform 
white of the African bird, and in the deeper russet of the flanks. 
102. CALAMOHERPE TURDOIDES, Boie. 
A summer visitor. 
103. CALAMOHERPE ——. 
Apparently differs from C. turdoides, uot only in its coloration 
and rather smaller size, but in the second primary being less than 
the first, which is the longest of all. 
104. CALAMOHERPE ARUNDINACEA, Gm. 
Common. Returns from the south in the beginning of March. 
105. CALAMOHERPE PALUSTRIS, Bechst. 
Scarce. 
106. AipoNn GALACTODES (Temm.). 
Identical with the European and N. African bird, and perfectly 
distinct from A. familiaris, Ménétr., which is common in Asia Minor, 
but which we never found in Palestine. It is the most abundant, at 
‘least the most conspicuous, warbler in spring and summer, but does 
not return before the middle of April. Found from the shores of 
the Dead Sea to the slopes of Lebanon. 
107. CistricoLa SCHENICOLA, Bp. 
Local in marshy plains. A constant resident. 
