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was the locality from its usual resorts here. Probably the birds 
were just then returning from their southern migration. 
43. Ruticilla tithys. 
Frequent on the barren rocky hills. 
44. Saxicola rubicola. 
Lower down the hills, among the low bushes. 
45. Saxicola rubetra. 
In the same localities as the preceding. 
46. Saxicola saltatrix, Menetries. 
On the bare rocky hills. In habits and locality exactly like 
our Wheatear. 
47. Saxicola eurymel^na, Hempr. et Ehrenb. 
Obtained in an olive-yard close to Bethlehem, where the bird 
is not uncommon. It is fond of perching on the top of a wall, 
and drops down noiselessly as danger approaches, with a silent 
flight skimming the ground till it rests again on a stone or clod 
at some little distance, where it remains jerking its tail until 
again disturbed. 
48. Saxicola*-? 
A pair shot at St. Helena's Well, not far east of Bethany. 
They had a nest in a hole of the wall over the well, containing 
four blue eggs thickly spotted with rusty brown. 
49. Dromol^a leucura. 
I saw this bird, as I believe, to the south-east of Bethlehem, 
among the barren hills; but as I have obtained in the Sahara 
several specimens of a nearly allied species just described by 
Brehm as Dromolaa leucopygia, and did not obtain a specimen 
of the bird I saw in Palestine, the species must remain for the 
present doubtful. 
50. Petrocincla saxatilis. 
Frequent in the deep gorges of the Kedron. 
* Mr. Tristram has submitted these specimens to my examination. The 
species appears to agree with Saxicola lugens of Licht., as figured in Tem- 
minck’s Planches Coloriees, under the name Sax. leucomela .— Ed. 
