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Richardson C. (Ed) (1988), Dubai Bird Report No. 6 
Richardson C. (Ed) (1989). Emirates Bird Report No*. 7 (formerly Dubai Bird 
Report) 
These reports cover the periods October - December 1988 and January - 
March 1989. The former includes details of five species new to the United 
Arab Emirates - Namaqua Dove, Pechora Pipit, Eye-browed Thrush, Redwing 
and Long-tailed Shrike. The introduction to the 1988 list contains the 
encouraging statement f A combination of enthusiastic observers and more 
awareness of the importance of our birdlife has resulted in an avalanche 
of records - long may this continue. Colin Richardson can be 
contacted at PO Box 2825, Dubai, UAE. 
RECENT LITERATURE Compiled by Mrs F . E. Warr 
Anon. 1989. Ornithology (a report). Bull. Emirates Nat. Hist. Group 
(Abu Dhabi) 38: 26. 
Anon. 1989. Bird-watchers put Emirates on the scientific map. 
Newsletter Emirates Nat. Hist. Group (Abu Dhabi) 13 (5): 2. 
Anon. 1989. Slender-billed Curlew - Conservation programme and 
identification. OSME Bull. 22: 48-51. 
Anon. 1989. More Dunn's Larks (Eilat). Birding World 2 (1): 36. 
Anon. 1989. european News. British Birds 82: 21 & 321-329. Some Middle 
Eastern records. 
Alstrbm, P., and Schekkerman, H. 1988. Desert Wheatear kleptoparasitizing 
ants. Sandgrouse 10: 111. 
Ash, J. 1988. Some observations in South Yemen in 1984 and a selected 
bibliography of the region. Sandgrouse 10: 85-90. 
Ash, J. S. et al . 1989. The mangrove reed warblers of the Red Sea and 
Gulf of Aden coasts, with description of a new subspecies of the African 
Reed Warbler Acrocephalus baeticatus . Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 109 (I): 
36-43. 
Asmode, J. F. 1988. The role of warblers in the regeneration of bushes in 
near-savanna in Saudi Arabia. Alauda 56 (4): 411. In French. 
Atta, G. A. 1987. Comment on Sandgrouse, Partridge and Bustard of Egypt. 
1 Congreso Internacional de Aves Esteparias : 477-480. 
Baldwin, P. J., and Meadows, B. S. 1988. Birds of Madinat Yanbu 
al-Sinaiyah and its hinterland . Riyadh: Royal Corami?sion for Jubail and 
Yanbu. (B. S. Meadows, 9 Old Hall Lane, Walton-on-Naze , Essex, C014 8LE) 
