In addition, 532 specimens were collected in Cyprus in 1967 -I 968 . 
Other important collections of specimens from the Palearctic are 
available for comparison in the American Museum of Natural History in 
New York and the Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven, Connecticut. 
Systematic studies on the migrants have begun but are not yet 
completed. One of the more complex groups in the Palearctic, and one 
that is represented by many migrant species in the eastern 
Mediterranean, is the Old World Warbler subfamily Sylviinae. A 
majority of the virus isolations made during the PMS have been from 
warblers, particularly from the genus Sylvia. The principal 
investigator is reviewing the subfamily for Peters’ Cheohlist of Bivds 
of the Worlds and has completed a manuscript on the Western Palearctic 
species. Work is also in progress on,a checklist of the birds of 
Egypt, and we are providing information to the editors of The Birds of 
the Western Palearotic. 
A large number of specimens, both skeletons (2200+) and 
alcoholics (2400) from the eastern Mediterranean, have been added to 
the Smithsonian collections for anatomical study. The alcoholic 
specimens may also be used for food habit and to a lesser extent for 
systematic studies. 
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