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Mr. W. Haw on the 
[Ibis, 
Museum. It was an adult male, and I tried in vain to 
secure another male which haunted the rocky bed of an old 
canal for several days about the same time. This species 
must have been overlooked, for on 1 November, 1918, I shot 
another adult male, and during the succeeding week I saw 
upwards of a dozen and shot several, which are in my 
collection and that of Mr. J. L. Bonliote. All the specimens 
shot and seen were males, and, although I kept a good look¬ 
out, I never saw a single female. 
83. (Enanthe melanoleuca fmschii. Arabian Chat. 
A female shot on 12 February, 1917, and three males 
during November, 1918, were all I met with at Ahu 
^ Zabal. 
84. (Enanthe isabellina. Isabelline Wheatear. 
Winters at Abu Zahal, arriving towards the end of 
August and departing in April. None remain to breed. 
Very quarrelsome ; a wounded bird is invariably set upon 
and killed by others of the same species. 
85. (Enanthe lugens lugens. Mourning Chat. 
Occasionally seen during the winter, and a brood of 
young, together with their parents, annually appeared on a 
piece of waste ground during August. Lack of suitable 
rocky retreats probably accounts for their scarcity at Ahu 
Zahal. 
Captain W. Bigger found young birds out of the nest on 
28 April, and a pair building on 2 June, 1917, in a wadi 
behind the Citadel, Cairo. 
I had intended to devote some time to this family in the 
spring of 1919, hut the riots unfortunately upset my 
arrangements. 
[Although I never found a nest with young or eggs, I saw 
and shot birds which were evidently breeding in the Wadi 
Hof near Helwan on 5. v. 09, and found old nests in holes 
in the rocky sides of small valleys, presumably of this 
species.—It. S.] 
