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Rev. H. B. Tristram's Notes 
the most barren and rocky regions, and runs up and down the 
stones with wondrous agility, descending head downwards, and 
then, by a sudden bound, flying to the foot of the next rock, 
which it climbs, and runs down after the same fashion, search¬ 
ing the crevices as it goes, for small beetles, with which the 
stomachs of those I examined were filled. In summer and 
winter alike they were always in pairs, never (as Sitta europced) 
in small flocks. The note is louder than that of our species, 
and much resembles the call of the Spotted Woodpecker. 
32. Troglodytes europ.eus. 
Frequent. 
33. Erythropygia galactotes. 
Seen near the Jordan. 
34. Hippolais salicaria. 
In moist places near Jericho. 
35. Salicaria turdoides. 
Among the reeds by the mouth of the Jordan. 
36. Fhyllopneuste ruea. 
Generally distributed. 
37. Phyllopneuste bonellii. 
One specimen shot. 
38. Melizophilus proyincialis. 
Among the bushes on the dry hill-sides, in the most barren 
parts of the country. 
39. Sylvia subalpina. 
Shot on the wooded banks of the Jordan. 
40. Sylvia melanocephala. 
Frequent in gardens and olive-yards. 
41. CuRRUCA ORPHEA. 
Several times met with in olive-yards and on wooded hill¬ 
sides throughout the country. 
42. CURRUCA ATRICAPILLA. 
Found in numerous flocks in the defiles opening on the Dead 
Sea. Had I not procured and brought home several specimens, 
I should have doubted its identity with our species, so different 
