2i8 AVES. 



Motacilla sulphurea, Bechst. Gray wagtail. Not unfrequent in the 

 Gh6r es Safieh. Mr. Wyatt met this bird in Sinai. 



} Antkus trivialis, Linn. I believe this was the pipit which occurred 

 in the Gh6r. Unfortunately my specimen was too bad for determina- 

 tion. 



^Pycnonotus xanthopygus. Hemp, et Ehr. 'Akabah ; El Tibi and Wddy 

 Ghuweir on the 'Arabah ; Petra ; very abundant in the Ghor es Safieh ; 

 at Gaza and Jericho. In the Upper Gh6r el Feifeh every bush of salva- 

 dora (which forms dense groves) contained these birds. I have never 

 seen any birds, not in flocks, so numerous. They had some soft, sweet, 

 trilling notes, but were not, I presume, in proper song. This bird is 

 found outside Palestine and Sinai in Northern Syria. Captain Burton 

 met it to the southern limit of his travels in Midian in lat. 26° 30' (' Land 

 of Midian,' ii. 185), so that it is perhaps tolerably wide-spread in Arabia. 

 Mr. Wyatt found the bulbul in Widy Feiran in Sinai. 



'tLanius fallax, Finsch. Frequent in Sinai, and up the 'Arabah to the 

 Ghor. Gaza. Found in Nubia, Abyssinia, and eastwards in Persia and 

 Beloochistan. 



Hirundo Savignii, Streph. In great abundance between Gaza and 

 Ascalon, and about Medjel along the coast. For some miles these birds 

 flew about and beside our horses, coming within arm's length, and dis- 

 playing the showy under-colour, which is continued to the tail, and seems 

 to be almost the only distinction from the common swallow. It seemed 

 somewhat larger than H. rustica, of which a small number occurred 

 intermixed. Mr. Sharpe informs me that he does not consider it distinct ; 

 but besides its colouration, it is non-migratory, and confined to Egypt 

 and Palestine. Also seen in Sinai by Mr. Wyatt. It may perhaps, 

 therefore, be regarded as only a climatic variety. 



H. rustica, Linn. 'Akabah, on the confines of Sinai, and along the 

 coast from Gaza to Jaffa. 



Cottle rupestris, Scop. Ghdr es Safieh. 



C. obsoleta, Cap. I saw this species at Widy Nasb, and also, I 

 believe, in Widy el 'Ain. Its pale back and very square tail were dis- 



