Contents 
1 Editorial -The Gulf War 
1 Priority bird species in Turkey Richard Porter 
8 Towards a Turkish Atlas? Max Kasparek 
13 Atlas of Breeding Birds of Arabia: Progress Report Mike 
Jennings 
16 Impressions of autiimn migration in mid-October along the 
Cukurova coast, near the Belen Pass, southern Turkey Vincent 
van den Berk 
20 Rare Birds in Bahrain 1989 and 1990 Enk HirschfeJd 
25 Spring raptor observations from Djibouti Geoff and Hilary 
mich 
27 Photographing birds in the Middle East Paul Doherty 
31 Great Black-headed Gulls on Lake Nasser, Egypt in January 
1989 Ted Hoogendoom 
32 Gull records from the northern Egyptian Red Sea coasts in 
January and February 1989 W (Ted) Hoogendoom 
36 News and Information compiled by Simon Albrecht 
39 Recent Literature compiled by Mrs FE Warr 
49 Letter: Armenian Gulls Dr WRP Bourne 
50 Reviews 
54 Library Report 
55 OSME News: Cover Auction 
55 OSME AGM 
56 OSME in Amsterdam 
58 Announcements 
59 Requests 
59 Around the Region compiled by Guy Kirwan 
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