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is tolerably common. The Rev. Canon Tristram 

 found it numerous in Palestine, and especially 

 abundant under Mount Hermon. Messrs. Elwes 

 and Buckley include it in their list of the birds 

 of Turkey (" Ibis," 1870, p. 19), and Lord 

 Lilford has noted its occasional occurrence in 

 spring in the Ionian Isles. Riippell includes it 

 amongst the birds of Arabia and Egypt,' but 

 either it is not very common in Egypt, or it has 

 escaped the searching eyes of many English 

 ornithologists in that country. Mr. O. Salvin 

 found it tolerably common in the Eastern Atlas, 

 and it has also been met with in Tripoli {cf. 

 Chambers, " Ibis," 1867, p. 104). As it is thus 

 found in North Africa, and, according to Pro- 

 fessor Savi, is a summer visitant to Italy, one 

 would naturally expect to find it in Malta ; but 

 Mr. C. A. Wright, who has paid great attention 

 to Maltese ornithology for many years, states 

 that he has never met with it himself, and that 

 only one instance of its occurrence in Malta is 



' "Syst. Uebers. d. Vogel Nord-Ost Afrika's," p. 57 



