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were very wary, and .kept well out of range of Cairo gunpowder. They 

 seemed to be about the size of the hooded chat, but presented more varied 

 colouring, without white. From my notes, Canon Tristram refers these 

 birds to this species. Found from the Sahara to Arabia. 



Saxicola cenanthe, Linn. Wheatear. Ramleh and Jericho. A spring 

 visitant to Sinai. 



S. leucopygia, Brehm. White rumped chat. Frequently seen in Sinai, 

 as in Wady es Sheikh and elsewhere, and in Wady Ghuweir in Edom. 

 I shot several specimens. This bird has a very sweet, but weak, low, 

 murmuring song, to which I often listened with pleasure. It is found 

 elsewhere in the deserts of Sahara, Nubia, and Arabia. S. leucocephala, 

 Brehm., a form of this species was also seen, I believe, at 'Akabah. 



S. lugens, Licht. Pied chat. Met with in the desert and in the 

 Gh6r, but more common about Jerusalem. S. Finschii, Hengl., was also 

 seen about Jerusalem and at Bib el Wad. These two chats are both 

 natives of Arabia, Egypt, and Algeria, but their headquarters are, accord- 

 ing to Canon Tristram, in Palestine. 



\Cercomela melanura, Temn. Desert blackstart. One of the frequent 

 species all through Sinai to Gh6r, and at Jericho. Found in Arabia, 

 Egypt, Nubia, and Abyssinia. 



^Pratincola rubicola, Linn. Stone chat. This species was not' un- 

 frequent in the Ghor es Safieh, near the Dead Sea. Mr. Holland met 

 with it in Sinai, Ramleh, and Jericho. 



^Ruticilla tithys, Linn. Black redstart. I obtained this bird at Jeru- 

 salem, where it was frequent, as also at Gaza. Mr. Wyatt found it 

 common in the upper part of Sinai. 



\Cyanecula c<2rulcculus, Pail. Blue-throated warbler. Frequent at 

 'Aytan Miisa, and again at 'Akabah, at both which places I obtained 

 specimens. I shot it again in the Ghor, where it was common. This 

 species was very tame. 



Erithacus rubecula, Linn. Robin. Between Ramleh and Jerusalem, 

 and in the Ghor at Jericho. 



Sylvia nana. Hemp, et Ehr. Pigmy warbler. Widy Zelegah, north- 

 eastern escarpment of the Tih, amongst tamarisk bushes; Wady 'Arabah 



