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1921.] the Near East and Tropical East Africa . 
worn breeding plumage it is more difficult to recognize the 
races of this species. 
This race is absent from Damascus and the Lebanon. It is 
scarce on the Syrian coast at Beyrouth but becomes common 
farther south at Tyre, Acre, Haifa, and on Mount Carmel. 
It occurs throughout the Jordan Valley from the Sea of 
Galilee to the Dead Sea and in the Yarmuk Valley, and is 
absent from the Judaean highlands though plentiful in the 
foot-hills and coastal plain south to Gaza. It is also absent 
from northern Sinai. 
MUSCICAPA STKIATA. 
Muscicapa s. striata (Pall.). 
A male obtained at Damascus on 9. ix. is of this race. 
All Palestine and Egyptian birds which I have examined are 
similarly of this race. 
In Palestine, birds commence arriving in spring in the 
middle of April, and nest commonly in the coastal plains and 
on the Judaean highlands. I never observed them in the 
Jordan Valley. 
In Egypt, spring passage was in full swing up to the 
middle of May, when it suddenly stopped, the latest record 
being a single bird on 20. v. 
In Kenya Colony, autumn migrants commence arriving in 
late September or early October, and are plentiful by the 
middle of that month ; most of them remain the winter. 
On spring passage I noted birds moving on the coast of 
Tanganyika Territory and on the slopes of Kilimanjaro 
during the first three weeks in March. My latest spring 
record is on 28. iii. Mr. Turner, who was on the coast of 
Kenya Colony during April, never saw a single bird. 
Muscicapa s. neumanni Poche. 
Two spring migrants obtained at Mombasa on 29. iii. and 
30. iii. respectively belong to this race. Also three birds 
obtained in northern Somaliland (Archer) from 23. ix. 
to 3.x. 
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