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have worked for. Ringers are requested to send a copy of their 
valid ringing licence. 
Conditions: Volunteers work six days a week and have one day free. 
Five days a week will be assigned to research and the remaining day 
to guiding or other duties. Lodging In a furnished flat is provided 
and volunteers staying for one raonth or more receive $100 a nionth to 
cover food and other expenses. Transport to £lUt and back is at 
the volunteer's own expense. 
Anyone interested slioald write as soon as possible, with their 
relevant details and preferred dates of stay to David Yekutiel and 
Merav Gellert, IBCE, P. 0. Box 774, Eilat, Israel. 
REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION 
Swallows in the Middle East 
I am at present engaged in writing a monograph on the Swallow 
Hirundo rustica , and would be grateful to receive inforraation on any 
of the following topics (which are not well covered in the 
li tera tur e) : 
1. When do Swallows breed in the Middle East ( savignil in Egypt or 
transi tiva in Israel)? What are the clutch sizes? How many 
broods do they rear? 
2. In Egypt, does savignil breed anywhere away from the Nile 
Valley (e.g. the Red Sea coastline)? 
3. In Israel, is transi tiva always a summer migrant? And is it 
easy to tell in the field from savignil ? 
4. Does anyone have measurements of samples of savigni i or 
transi tiva taken from live specimens? Or moult records, or 
weights ? 
5. Have Swallows colonised Saudi Arabia yet, and if so, whi>:h 
subspecies is involved? 
Can anyone help? Please write to Cliff Davies, Department of 
Psychology, University of Manchester, Manchester Ml 3 9PL, Great 
Britain. 
OSME NEWS 
Tenth AGM 
The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Ro-id, London was the venue for 
the tenth AGM on 9 July 1983 and t!ioro w.is i record turn-o:- >ver 
